Wandering through a general store in WV last weekend, found a book on how to identify wild mushrooms - a simple method for eliminating the dangerous ones by class, then positively ID the remaining ones.
Learned that this one, the "giant puffball", is quite edible when fresh.
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We get a crop of these all around our yard each fall, some as big as a basketball. My wife is decidedly not committed to my project to whip up a culinary delight centered around a yard-harvested giant puffball. 
Anyone else mess around with wild 'shrooms? And, I am not referring to the mind altering ones, merely the taste altering ones.
Once when I was 2.5. had my stomach pumped, lesson learned. I get some good ones from a guy with an outside stall at EM.
