Coming Home to Eat The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food

Name: Coming Home to Eat The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food
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ISBN: 9780393323740

ISBN-10: 0393323749

ISBN-13: 9780393323740

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Gary Paul Nabhan

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List price: $15.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

He is a prize-winning author & naturalist, lives in Tucson, where he is director of conservation biology at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum & cofounder of Native Seeds/Search.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Spring: The Cruelest Months



Eating My Way through House and Homeland



Purging the Canned, Making Room for the Fresh



Coping with Death, and the Life Thereafter



Riding the Dunes and Finding the Ghosts



Dead Chemicals or Peaches Eaten Alive



Summer: The Fertile Months



Saguaro Fruit and Cactus Icons



Mesquite Tortillas and Duck Eggs



Tomato Hornworms and Summer Storms



Scouting for Wild Greens and Chiles



Seed Saving and Foraging in the Heartland



The Frontera Grill and the Frontiers of Technology



From Toxic Cornfields to Rattlesnake Roadkills



Autumn: The Feasting Months



The Headwaters and the Foodshed



The Fertile Valleys and Their Wild Varmints



Sea Turtle Soup and By-Catch Stew



The Nomad's Movable Feast and the Taste of Island Chicken



Hunting Mushrooms and Grilling Salmon



Feasting with the Dead



Winter: The Reflective Months



Of Vinegars Fermented and Memories Curdled



The WTO in Seattle, and the Spirit of St. Louis



Hunting Quail and Stalking Scavengers



Mexico's Breadbasket of Toxins and Migrants



The Desert Walk for Heritage and Health


Epilogue


Cornucopia of Native Foods Eaten within the Sonoran Desert/Gulf of California Foodshed


Further Reading


Sustainable Food Organizations


Index