Stalking the Blue Eyed Scallop or Great Rhubarb Recipes Bulletin A 123

Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop

Author: Euell Gibbons

Euell Gibbons tells how to find marvelous food in every coastal area of North America.This book contains numerous drawings for identification and abounds in recipes and cooking tips from chowders and clambakes all the way to simple epicurean treats such as boiled periwinkles dipped in melted butter.

The New York Times Review - Nika Hazelton

Euell Gibbons the author of Stalking the Wild Asparagus has written another great nature book about the marvelous food that the seashore and tidal waters offer for the taking, and how to cook it. I think Mr. Gibbons is one of America's most original writers about nature and food, and I've followed his advice about the gathering of periwinkles, edible seaweed and such and cooked them a la Gibbons with delicious results. The book is the best antidote for the tedium of mechanized modern life. I can't think of any other that has given me as much pleasure each time I've picked it up."

The New York Times - Craig Claiborne

Euell Gibbons is a gentle-natured man with gaunt, Lincolnesque features. He is also an excellent cook and a naturalist who lives by the pen. His most recent book, Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop, is an affectionate account of his years in foraging the fruits of salt water and seashore. It is also a very good book for cooking by.

The recipes in The Blue-Eyed Scallop range from such seeming exotica as bluegill newburg and goose barnacle buns to plain steamed mussels and beach plum jam. The word seeming is used advisedly because this is a serious work that is a pleasure to read. The author is not only a man who is dedicated to nature but also one who writes with facility and flashes of wit.

Mr. Gibbons and his wife live a quite and cultivated life in a small Pennsylvania community called Beaverstown. For years they have been know to their friends and acquaintances for their "wild parties' in which freshly gathered foods from field and stream are brought into their kitchen for a banquet.

In the normal course of dining, the couple rely at times on the neighborhood butcher and grocer but their table is more often graced with salads made of sea rocket and purslane; breads make of hickory nuts, and desserts such as wild strawberries with cream and May apple chiffon pie.

"Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop would make a fine gift for anyone with a sense of adventure who lives by the side of a sea, cove or bay. It is a practical guide to the edibles that abound in and around tidal areas and these are more numerous than the average man dreams of. It is conceivable that, equipped with the book, an adventurous spirit might live for endless time with a minimum expenditure of money for food other than for sugar, salt, flour and other pantry staples.

Matthew Alfs

Yet, to those who actually knew him, as well as to those who took the time to read his many books and articles, Euell Theophilus Gibbons (1911-1975) was nothing short of a naturalist and survivalist of the first rank, not to mention a great ecological hero--in a class with figures like Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, Henry Thoreau, and John Muir.

Careful historians have largely concurred with this assessment, noting that Gibbons was one of several prominent naturalists who ushered in our modern ecological renaissance. Indeed, Gibbons' writings, like Rachel Carson's, possessed true motivational power, spurring many people to relinquish the idea of "conquering nature" (the cultural war cry of the 1950s) and to start thinking about living in harmony with it. He was arguably even the chief one of a handful of nature writers of the 1960s and early 1970s who actually succeeded in bringing people back to the land, and thus to the very well-spring of true ecology. Here the Cleveland Natural Science Museum's Explorer newsletter perhaps put it best: "None can exceed Euell Gibbons in presenting the material in a fashion that makes you want to dash right out and try his advice."

In appreciation of Euell Gibbons' efforts, Susquehanna University awarded him an honorary doctorate. Then, too, Boston University has carefully preserved a collection of his notes and materials. Today, as well the Euell Gibbons Environmental Foundation continues the important wilderness educational work that he had started American Survival Guide Magazine, September 2000

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

With this book along, there is no reason why anyone on the beach cannot live on practically nothing.

What People Are Saying

Shirley King
Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop is a cookbook, nature guide and remembrance that pulls you in like a riptide. It is particularly illuminating about all the fine seafood we can gather on our shores, with beautiful descriptions of their habitats and behavior, and not least, recipes for some of the most unique and savory dishes you will ever enjoy.
—Shirley King, author of Fish: The Basics

Table of Contents:

1.	How to cook a sea serpent	1
2.	Gather your own Oysters	10
3.	Quahog or Littleneck, The Wampum Clam	19
4.	Crabs and Crabbing	23
5.	Razor Clams and Other Marine Cutlery	49
6.	Blue-Eyed Scallops-and Others	65
7.	The Common Periwinkle	76
8.	The Surf Clam: Abundant and Delicious	79
9.	Transcendental Seafood Combinations	85
10.	Soft-Shell Clams, Long-Necks, or Steamers	103
11.	The Neglected Blue Mussel: A Savory Seafood Treat	109
12.	Moon Shells and Left-Handed Whelks	119
13.	Sea Urchins or Sea Eggs	130
14.	The Purple Snail or Dog Whelks	135
15.	Coquinas and Beans Clams: The Wedge Shells	141
16.	The Cockles of America	150
17.	The Pen Shells, a Favorite Food of Ancient Gourmets	161
18.	Angel Wings, Fallen Angels, and Rough Piddocks	166
19.	Clamming on The West Coast	172
20.	The Epicurean Abalone	196
21.	The Edible Limpets	202
22.	Chitons or Sea Cradles	207
23.	Hunting the Wild Goose Barnacle	211
24.	Grunions, Blennies, and Lancelets	214
25.	Fishing for Food and Fun	222
26.	Edible Seaweeds	245
27.	Seaside Vegtables and Salads	256
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