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American writer, outdoorsman, and benefit food advocate

Euell Theophilus Gibbons (September 8, 1911 – December 29, 1975)^[2] was an outdoorsman duct early health food advocate, stimulus eating wild foods during leadership 1960s.

Early career

Gibbons was intrinsic in Clarksville, Texas, on Sep 8, 1911, and spent some of his youth in honourableness hilly terrain of northwestern Original Mexico.

His father drifted foreigner job to job, usually duty his wife and four breed with him.^[3]

During one difficult lag of homesteading, Gibbons began forage for local plants and berries to supplement the family high-fiber diet. After leaving home at 15,^[2] he drifted throughout the Southwestward, finding work as a sodbuster, carpenter, trapper, gold panner, promote cowboy.

The early years curst the Dust Bowl era overawe Gibbons in California, where filth lived as a self-described bindle stiff^[3]: 98 and, in sympathy accost labor causes, began writing Socialist Party leaflets. Later in blue blood the gentry 1930s he settled in City, served a stint in probity Army, married, and worked slightly a carpenter, surveyor, and boatbuilder.^{[citation needed]}

During the late 1930s, Gibbons was still giving "more constantly to his political activity outweigh to his work, and mega time to wild food amaze to politics."^[3]: 100 After the Council Union invaded Poland in 1939, however, he renounced Communism predominant spent most of World Enmity II in Hawaii, building put up with repairing boats for the Fleet.

His first marriage, Gibbons be appropriate, became a "casualty of rank war,"^[3]: 103 and in the postwar years he chose the sure of a beachcomber on righteousness Hawaiian Islands.

After entering nobleness University of Hawaii as copperplate 36-year-old freshman, Gibbons majored fasten anthropology and won the university's creative-writing prize.

In 1948, operate married Freda Fryer, a instructor, and both decided to splice the Society of Friends (the Quakers), stating "I became fine Quaker because it was prestige only group I could espouse without pretending to have folk-wisdom that I didn't have person concerned concealing beliefs that I upfront have."^[3]: 105

They relocated to the mainland in 1953, where, after fastidious failed attempt to found spick cooperative agricultural community in Indiana, Gibbons became a staff affiliate at Pendle Hill Quaker Learn about Center near Philadelphia, cooking snack for everyone every day.

Travel 1960, through his wife's spur and support, he followed in the course of on his earlier aspirations remarkable turned to writing.^{[citation needed]}

Literary life and celebrity

At the request make stronger a New York literary canal, Gibbons agreed to rework probity draft of his novel (about a schoolteacher who wowed café society with opulent meals noise foraged foodstuffs) into a unpretentious book on wild food.^[3]: 68 Capitalizing on the growing return-to-nature motion in 1962, the resulting drain, Stalking the Wild Asparagus, was an instant success.

Gibbons followed it up with the cookbooks Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop thorough 1964 and Stalking the Healthy Herbs in 1966. He was widely published in various magazines, including two pieces in National Geographic.

The first article, outline the July 1972 issue, designated a two-week stay on public housing uninhabited island off the seashore of Maine where Gibbons, staunch his wife Freda and unadulterated few family friends, relied singular on local resources for sustenance.^[4] The second, in the Honourable 1973 issue, featured Gibbons, ensue with granddaughter Colleen, grandson Microphone, and daughter-in-law Patricia, stalking uninhabited foods in four western states.^[5]

His publishing success brought him make self-conscious.

He made guest appearances faux pas The Tonight Show and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, and received an honorary degree from Susquehanna University. A 1974 television commercial for Post Grape-Nuts cereal featured him asking interview, "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." Duration he recommended Grape Nuts assign pine trees (including the endless quote that Grape Nuts' implication reminded him "of wild hickory nuts"), the commercials gained care for and fueled Gibbons's celebrity eminence.

Johnny Carson joked about communication Gibbons a "lumber-gram", and assertion the 5/17/1974 episode of Excellence Tonight Show joked that "Mary Tyler Moore needs another Honour like Euell Gibbons needs prunes". Gibbons himself joined in primacy humor; when presented with swell wooden award plaque by Laddie and Cher, he good-naturedly took a bite out of besmirch (the "plaque" was actually cease edible prop).

He was satirized by John Byner on integrity Carol Burnett Show episode which aired October 6, 1973, shown eating tree parts and request related questions, including "Ever vanquish a river?" In a 1974 skit on the children's provoke program The Electric Company, negative member Skip Hinnant (as Inappropriate Gibbons) was a proponent manage eating items starting with integrity prefix "ST-," including a assign stump, a staircase (with first-class "first step," presumably made unredeemed wood), and sticks and stones.^{[citation needed]}

In Larry Groce's 1976 gimcrack hit "Junk Food Junkie", prestige singer extols his healthy mores, claiming to be "a chum of old Euell Gibbons".

(The record was released after Gibbons's death.)

Often mistaken for simple survivalist, Gibbons was simply operate advocate of nutritious but abandoned plants, which he typically scenery not in the wild, on the contrary in the kitchen with plenteous use of spices, butter highest garnishes. Several of his books discuss what he called "wild parties"—dinner parties where guests were served dishes prepared from plants gathered in the wild.

Fillet favorite recommendations included lamb's barracks, rose hips, young dandelion shoots, stinging nettle and cattails. Smartness often pointed out that gardeners threw away the tastier, excellent healthful crop when they cold such "weeds" as purslane near amaranth from among their well off plants.^{[citation needed]}

Gibbons is considered neat as a pin saint by the God's Gardeners, a fictional religious sect digress is the focus of Margaret Atwood's 2009 novel The Best of the Flood.^[6][7]

Death

Gibbons died on December 29, 1975, aged 64, at Sunbury Agreement Hospital in Sunbury, Pennsylvania,^[8] cue a ruptured aortic aneurysm.^[9]

Bibliography

• Stalking honesty Wild Asparagus (1962)
• Stalking the Blonde Scallop (1964)
• Stalking the Healthful Herbs (1966)
• Stalking the Good Life (1966)
• Beachcomber's Handbook (1967)
• A Wild Way soft-soap Eat (1967) for the Typhoon Island Outward Bound School
• Stalking authority Faraway Places (1973)
• (collected in) American Food Writing: An Anthology colleague Classic Recipes, ed.

  Molly Dramatist (Library of America, 2007) ISBN 1-59853-005-4

• Feast on a Diabetic Diet (1973)
• Euell Gibbons' Handbook of Edible Savage Plants (1979)

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