If you’re in the mood for something with a bit of a punch, then wild onions are for you. They are found in open meadows especially moist ones. Wild onions feature multiple flowers on a single stalk which create a globe shaped inflorescence. Identification is confirmed by the pungent onion aroma. All parts of the plant are edible: flower, leaves and root.
While difficult to harvest, stinging nettle can be pretty tasty. The stinging nettle has minute hollow hairs filled with formic acid&#;the same toxin produced by red ants,&#;which causes a painful, red rash when the plant is touched. Early season nettles have a sweeter taste and
EUELL GIBBONS -- 44 YEARS LATER
Gibbons died December 29,
[Nyerges is the author of &#;Guide to Wild Foods&#; and other books. He can be reached at Box , Eagle Rock, CA or ]
Has it been that long already? In , a strange man entered America&#;s consciousness via television. Acting out what seemed to be primitive rites, he would brandish cattails, goldenrod, hickory nuts, and pine branches, instructing the viewers that &#;many parts are edible, you know.&#;
Euell Gibbons rapidly became fodder for comedians who turned his &#;Stalking the Wild &#; book titles into the comedy cliché of the year. But, in the summer of , the Federal Trade Commission ordered Gibbons&#; commercials for Post Grape-Nuts cereal off the air, and, by the time he died on December 29 of , Gibbons&#; celebrity had diminished considerably.
That was a shame, for Gibbons did have a valuable message for America: There are tons of wild, nutritious food growing everywhere in this country that we could -- but don&#;t -- eat. Gibbons believed that the main reason that Americans shun wild food is fear of ridicule if they stoop to gather weeds, which are generally re
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Do a Google search for Euell Gibbons today, and you’re not likely to turn up much about his environmental activism or connection to organic farming. What you’ll find is that he’s mostly remembered for starring in a series of Grape Nuts commercials, asking questions like, “Did you ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.” Why have those commercials overshadowed his other accomplishments? The answer lies in the tumultuous years of the early s.
Euell was fond of bragging that he could easily find enough wild plants to make a lunch wherever he happened to be. When a reporter called his bluff in New York City and challenged him to actually try it in Central Park, Euell managed to prepare a full meal of cooked greens, salad, fried fish from a pond, and sassafras tea to drink. All of this, of course, was fully in line with what he wrote in his foraging books. But he did admit in his book Stalking the Good Life that “many interviewers want to portray me as some kind of weed-eating freak, like the man at the carnival show who eats beer glasses and swallows razor blades.” He didn’t totally
Some of you subscribe to American Survival Guide, right? In the current issue [Vol.8, Issue 7, July], I wrote an article about Euell Gibbons, who influenced so many of us who studied ethnobotany. Get the current issue and read the entire article.
Briefly&#; In the late 60s and early &#;70s, there was a wave of ecological and &#;back to the land&#; awareness which was sweeping the country. This period saw the rise of the incredibly popular Mother Earth News magazine, communes, and Euell Gibbons.
Euell Gibbons was a man of modest means who loved to fish and forage, and always wanted to be a writer. Wanting to be a novelist, his first work was about a man who tried to live off the land by eating common weeds that grow everywhere. But Gibbons&#; publisher told Gibbons to rewrite the book from a novel to a guidebook for identifying these wayside plants. That book was &#;Stalking the Wild Asparagus,&#; first published in , and by the early s, it had become a best-seller, along with several other books by the aging naturalist.
By , Gibbons began to capitalize on his popularity, and became the frontman for Post Grape Nuts, a
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