Sounds like your gram gram was overly careful. Foraging for mushrooms does not require huge amounts expertise. It requires a little bit of common sense. If yo

Sounds like your gram gram was overly careful. Foraging for mushrooms does not require huge amounts expertise. It requires a little bit of common sense. If you regularly went foraging, it would have been possible for you to learn a few easily identifiable and unmistakable mushrooms. At least in the Nordics (and I assume it would be the same near by), it is quite easy to teach another person a few mushrooms to forage for when you can show the mushrooms growing in the wild and explain the few identifying traits.