His wife was Freda Fryer Gibbon s. He pitched Post Grape Nuts cereal using hickory nuts and pine trees. Electronic or printed reproduction is not permitted without permission. This biography was first published in the November 1998 issue of the Wild Food Adventurer newsletter and is currently brought to you by John Kallas of Wild Food Adventures. Articles are written by the editor and contributing writers.
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Events listed in the calendar represent educational offerings by any individual or institution anywhere in North America. There is nary a wild food authority today that has not been inspired, in some substantial way, by Euell Gibbons. He spent most of his teens in the hill country of New Mexico, and learned lots about wild foods from his mother. The food supply diminished until all that was left were a few pinto beans and a single egg, which no one would eat. On his visit to Hawaii from 1947 to 1951, he met and married Freda Fryer.