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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary Paul Nabhan |
| ISBN: | 0393020177 9780393020175 9780393323740 0393323749 |
| OCLC Number: | 46991192 |
| Description: | 330 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Gary Paul Nabhan. |
Abstract:
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.
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