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 tastier, more healthful crop when they removed such "weeds" as purslane and amaranth from among their spinach plants. Gibbons is considered a saint by the God's Gardeners, a fictional religious sect that is the focus of Margaret Atwood's 2009 novel The Year of the Flood. Death Gibbons died on December 29, 1975, aged 64, at Sunbury Community Hospital in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, a common complication from Marfan syndrome. Bibliography Stalking the Wild Asparagus (1962) Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop (1964) Stalking the Healthful Herbs (1966) Stalking the Good Life (1966) Beachcomber's Handbook (1967) A Wild Way to Eat (1967) for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School Stalking the Faraway Places (1973) (collected in) American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes, ed. Molly O'Neill (Library of America, 2007) Feast on a Diabetic Diet (1973) Euell Gibbons' Handbook of Edible Wild Plants (1979) References External links The Plowboy Interview: Euell Gibbons, Mother Earth News, May–June 1972. Euell Gibbons Biography by John Kallas, Ph.D., Institute for the Study of Edible Wild Plants and Other Foragables. Article with Photograph Euell Gibbons Biography by John Sunder. The Handbook of Texas Online New York Times appreciation of Euell Gibbons by John McPhee Wild Man Euell Gibbons Post Grape Nuts , 1974. 1911 births 1975 deaths Writers from New Mexico American food writers American nature writers American non-fiction outdoors writers Diet food advocates Deaths from aortic aneurysm 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers People from Clarksville, Texas American male non-fiction writers People with Marfan syndrome