Stalking the Wild Asparagus Euell Gibbons Naturalist 1971 Printing Survival Food

Stalking the Wild Asparagus

Field Guide Edition

by Euell Gibbons

Euell Gibbons was one of the few people in this country to devote a considerable part of his life to the adventure of “living off the land.”

He sought out wild plants all over North America and made them into delicious dishes. His book includes recipes for vegetable and casserole dishes, breads, cakes, muffins and twenty different pies.

He also shows how to make numerous jellies, jams, teas, and wines, and how to sweeten them with wild honey or homemade maple syrup.

"Often mistaken for a survivalist, Gibbons was simply an advocate of nutritious but neglected plants. He typically prepared these not in the wild, but in the kitchen with abundant use of spices, butter and 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.

His favorite recommendations included lamb's quarters, rose hips, young dandelion shoots, stinging nettle and cattails.

He often pointed out that gardeners threw away the more tasty and healthy crop when they pulled such weeds as purslane and amaranth out from among their spinach plants."*

1971 Printing

Davis McKay Company, Inc.

Illustrations by Margaret F. Schroeder

Very good condition. Very light wear to edge of cover, minor creasing to spine. Has inscription from 1971.