Mushroom

Johnny Acton is an entrepreneurial writer and journalist whose career has lurched between such diverse poles as minicab driving and writing obituaries for The London Times. He is also the originator of the idea behind SOUP works, the sublime London-based restaurant chain whose liquid and other offerings have revolutionized the urban lunch. Johnny first became fascinated by mushrooms when he saw what happened to Cornelius in Babar the King. Since then, he has foraged for Boleti in Greenland and Giant Puffballs in Kent Nick Sandler is the co-founder and Executive Chef of SOUP works, and feeds thousands of lucky devotees each and every day. SOUP, his previous book with Johnny Acton, has inspired and entertained thousands more. Nick sees his love of fungi as a direct reaction to his mother forbidding him to pick wild mushrooms as a child. His disobedience has taken him as far as the Himalayas, in a quest for the world's largest Morel. He has harvested Oyster Mushrooms from a park bench in France, and reckons he can identify a species at 70mphNick Sandler is the author of 'Mushroom', published 2002 under ISBN 9781585744619 and ISBN 1585744611.