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The New Yorker, April 6, 1968 P. 45

PROFILE of Euell Theophilus Gibbons, who has written 4 books on the gathering & preparation of wild food. He lives & writes in a farmhouse near Troxelville, Pennsylvania. He is a Quaker. He has been, among other things, a school teacher. All his life has been a forager, becoming in this pursuit an excellent general naturalist. His first book "Stalking the Wild Asparagus", came out in 1962. He is at work on a volume covering every edible plant in N. America. He is not trying to prove anything except that there is a marvellous variety of good food in the world & only a modest part can be found in markets. Inadvertently, studying edible wild plants for years, he has become an expert on the nourishment aspects of survival in the wilderness. The writer tells about a six-day trip, in early Nov., with Mr. Gibbons, partly by canoe on the Susquehanna River and in part on the Appalachian Trail. They spent the first couple of days on a survival diet, then gradually extended the ways they prepared their foraged foods, introducing ce

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Euell Gibbons

The Father of Modern Wild Foods

Wild Food Adventurer Newsletter – Volume 3, Number 4 – November 25, 1998

There is nary a wild food authority today that has not been inspired, in some substantial way, by Euell Gibbons.

Euell’s classic books, “Stalking the Wild Asparagus”, “Stalking the Healthful Herbs”, and “Stalking the Blue-eyed Scallop”, are filled with real-life experiences in a countrified story-telling style that’s informative, fun, and endearing.

Euell was born in 1911 in Clarksville Texas, not far from the Oklahoma and Arkansas borders – the area comprising the Red River Valley. He spent most of his teens in the hill country of New Mexico, and learned lots about wild foods from his mother.

Here is an interesting account provided by John McPhee of Euell’s New Mexico, dust-bowl era years with his family:

His father left in a desperate search for work. The food supply diminished until all that was left were a few pinto beans and a single egg, which no one would eat. Euell, then teen-aged and
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Euell Gibbons: No Grape-Nut He
THE AUTHOR AND FORAGER Euell Theophilus Gibbons once served as the folksy face of Grape-Nuts, the breakfast cereal that contains neither grapes nor nuts. The television campaign featured Gibbons delivering his now-famous “Ever eat a pine tree?” line, which catapulted him from darling of the back-to-nature movement to an unwitting victim of America’s pop culture. The script was penned, of course, by Madison Avenue pitchmen, lampooned by late-night comedians, and even parodied in later television shows and Grape-Nuts ads by Gibbons himself. (“You know, the other day I ate some goose poop I found on my lawn.”)
Sadly, the series of Grape-Nuts ads upstaged the lifework of a naturalist nonpareil, whose books sold well enough to provide him with financial security as well as fame among those interested in sating their appetites using the most basic of provender, such as the weeds that sprang up in their backyards. One autumn day in the late ’60s, the writer John McPhee set out with Gibbons to forage the wilds of Pennsylvania for