Everyone loves a book that has a good quest at its center, be it a great white whale, a holy grail or, in the case of ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan, chef Kurt Friese, and agro-ecologist Kraig Kraft, rare and heirloom chiles.
Their new book, Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along The Pepper Trail (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011), is a rollicking ride, a “spice odyssey” that begins in Mexico and continues through several places in America where chile peppers are an integral part of the culture.
Arizona sits in the most arid region in the U.S. But it produces a surprising amount of food, from ancient crops like beans and corn, to winter vegetables that show up on dinner tables around the country. A new report, though, shows some cracks in the southwest’s food systems.
Unprecedented pressures exist on food security and farming capacity in the U.S. borderland states, according to a new regional food assessment by University of Arizona researchers and their colleagues. The economic downturn, water scarcity, rising oil prices, climate change and the loss of prime farmlands are creating “a perfect storm” that is likely to leave many hungry people in its wake.
With future generations in mind, my family will never leave the land we steward poorer, nor its water scarcer than…
By: Gary Paul Nabhan, Jesus Garcia, Rafael Routson, Kanin Routson and Micheline Cariño-Olvera Published: April, 2010 The first introductions of…
Taste Here What You Can’t Just Find Anywhere, And See For millennia, the Santa Cruz River Valley has been a…
By: Gary P. Nabhan and Vanessa Bechol Special to the Arizona Daily Star Tuscon, Arizona | Published: 12.01.08 PDF Version…
Annual Thanksgiving Show Publisher: APM Lynne Rossetto Kasper’s The Splendid Table was named “1999 Best National Radio Show on Food”…
For a quarter century, the breed of ethnobotanists I’ve hung with have proposed through countless lectures and publications that crop…
Watch Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine, at the…