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Coming home to eat, the pleasures and politics of local foods, Gary Paul Nabhan

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Coming home to eat, the pleasures and politics of local foods, Gary Paul Nabhan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-309) and index

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Coming home to eat

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

46991192

Responsibility statement

Gary Paul Nabhan

Sub title

the pleasures and politics of local foods

Summary

Gary Paul Nabhan shares what he learned after spending a year eating only foods that were grown, fished, or gathered within two hundred miles of his home

Table Of Contents

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

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