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Author Nabhan, Gary Paul.

Title Coming home to eat : the pleasures and politics of local foods / Gary Paul Nabhan.

Publication Info. New York : Norton, [2002]
©2002

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  641.01 NABHAN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-309) and index.
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.
Subject Local foods.
Gastronomy.
ISBN 0393020177
9780393020175
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