Comments on: Eating the vegan way with Euell Gibbons

By: Mucko

Mucko — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:53:36 +0000

Euell Gibbons certainly wrote some fun books, but he did not advocate eating wild foods because he was a vegan or a vegetarian. He was neither. Gibbons enjoyed wild foods as a gourmet and an outdoorsman. Many of his recipes call for adding eggs or meat (usually crisp crumpled bacon) for flavor, or using wild foods to compliment meat. In one of his books he even includes recipes for small game (rabbits, muskrats, squirrels.) He was also a fisherman who liked crawdads and brook trout. And he wrote an entire book — “Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop” — that’s chock full of recipes for ocean shellfish.

By: Dale Y the Green Guy

Dale Y the Green Guy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:36:33 +0000

Thanks for the comment, and I agree with you in many ways. The first time I looked at a dandelion leaf, although supposedly edible, my brain just kept saying ‘unsavory, weed, non-edible, yuk’. But of course, I tasted it anyway, and then said out loud, “unsavory, weed, non-edible, yuk!”

Of course, I had tasted an old wrinkled up leaf that was bitter and none too good. Although I was not very aware then, I fortunately realized soon enough that the younger leaves were the ticket here, and upon tasting one of those, I have been good to go ever since!

Even today my brain still recognizes dandelions as ‘unsavory weeds’ but I pay it no mind now, because my tummy knows better.

By: Yajur Kumar

Yajur Kumar — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:14:38 +0000

Humans usually decides the said ‘eating material’ or food by first visual confirmation. Then we smell it. If it is recognized as ‘edible’ by our brain, we eat, else we throw it like the grass.
The fact to be noted is that brain of different people may differently recognize the things as ‘edible’ or ‘non-edible’. Somebody may like sweet potatoes, while my friend Joe hates them!.
For example, for a pure-vegetarian, salami-eating is like inviting millions of bacterias and hence, diseases to his body; non-vegetarian like them most, however.
Object/thing recognize by your brain as ‘edible’ may not be same recognized by others! However, pine tree may have carbohydrates and proteins–I guess!
But I’ll try eating the parts of the pine tree anyway!!!