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Desert TerroirExploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands
A culinary journey through the flavors of the southwestern borderlands from an agricultural ecologist and "natural storyteller" ( Times Literary Supplement). Why does food taste better when you know where it comes from? Because history—ecological, cultural, even personal—flavors every bite we eat. Whether it's the volatile chemical compounds that a plant absorbs from the soil or the stor…
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Cumin, Camels, and CaravansA Spice Odyssey
Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert…
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