Eat Mesquite and More

A Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Foods and Living

Desert Harvesters (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2018
Rainsource Press (Verlag)
9780692938744 (ISBN)

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Eat Mesquite and More celebrates native food forests of the Sonoran Desert and beyond with over 170 recipes featuring wild, indigenous foods, including mesquite, acorn, barrel cactus, chiltepin, cholla, desert chia, desert herbs and flowers, desert ironwood, hackberry, palo verde, prickly pear, saguaro, wolfberry, and wild greens. The recipes—contributed by desert dwellers, harvesters, chefs, and innovators—capture a spirit of adventure and reverence inviting both newcomers and seasoned experts to try new foods and experiment with new flavors.

More than a cookbook, this guide also encourages a renaissance of “wild agriculture,” one that foregrounds the ethical harvesting and selection of wild foods and the re-planting of native food sources in urban and residential areas without imported water or fertilizers. It contains stories of significant individuals, organizations, and businesses that have contributed knowledge, products, and innovation in the planting, harvesting, and use of wild, native desert foods. Additional essays reveal the poetry of the foraging life, how to plant the rain, and medicinal uses and ethnobotanical histories of desert plants.

Many of the food plants included in this cookbook—or close relatives of them—can be found or grown in the other deserts and drylands of North America and South America. As such, this book becomes a template for harvesting and cooking throughout the Americas. Universally, its concepts and approach can help communities everywhere collaborate with their ecosystem, while enhancing the health of all.

Desert Harvesters is a grassroots organization born of a desire, and evolved by a multi-decade practice, to grow, connect with, and contribute to a more delicious life enhancing our health and that of the place where we live, work, and play. We promote and enhance the planting, awareness, and use of native wild food sources, which can thrive on harvested rainfall and runoff without the additional irrigation that depletes both groundwater  and creeks and rivers. We offer workshops in how to harvest and prepare mesquite and other native foods, hold community events to celebrate local harvests, run tastings and mesquite millings to improve the harvest and simplify its processing, and plant native food-bearing trees and understory plantings throughout Tucson and beyond. By fostering a reciprocal relationship between native plants and local people, we believe (and have found) we can strengthen local food security, reconnect people with the ecosystem, and build a more dynamic and sustainable community.

PART I: MANIFEASTO

Desert Harvesters Manifeasto 14

Feasting by Ofelia Zepeda 15

Foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan 16

Introduction 18

About Desert Harvesters 19

Planting, Harvesting, Processing, and Enjoying Local Abundance 20

Part II: RECIPES

Sonoran Desert Map 24

About the Recipes 25

Recipe for Sonoran Desert Abundance 27

Wild Foods Harvest Calendar 28

Mesquite (DRY SUMMER) 29

Mesquite: Breakfasts 34

Mesquite: Breads/Crackers 50

Mesquite: Savory Dishes / Sides 66

Mesquite: Soups / Spreads / Sauces 76

Mesquite: Sweets 84

Mesquite: Drinks 106

Saguaro Fruit (DRY SUMMER) 113

Desert Iron wood (DRY SUMMER | WET SUMMER) 129

Acorn (WET SUMMER | FALL) 139

Prickly Pear FRUIT aka TUNAS (WET SUMMER) 151

Devil 's Claw (WET SUMMER) 169

Wolfberry (SPRING | WET SUMMER) 173

Hackberry (FALL) 183

Chiltepin (FALL) 191

Barrel Cactus (FALL | WINTER) 201

NOPAL aka prickly pear pad (SPRING) 213

Cholla (SPRING) 225

Desert Chia (SPRING | DRY SUMMER) 239

Palo Verde (SPRING | DRY SUMMER) 249

Desert Flowers (SPRING | WET SUMMER) 263

Wild Greens & Desert Herbs (SPRING | WET SUMMER) 273

Meats & Insects 297

Part III: LIVING & EATING IN PLACE

Why I Wander: Developing Intimacy with Place by Jill Lorenzini 306

Tending to the Sky: Solar Cooking as Connection by Amanda Bramble 308

Planting Rain, Fertility, Wild Foods, and Community by Brad Lancaster 310

A River of Abundance (with Petey Mesquitey) 317

The Desert Is Food by Richard Stephen Felger and Neil Logan 318

Medicinal Uses of Edible Plants of the Sonoran Desert by John Slattery 322

Beneficial Wildlife Neighbors in Native Food Forests 326

How to Localize Your Food Choices by Jill Lorenzini 330

Resources 331

Author Bios 333

Acknowledgments 335

Recipe Index 339

Erscheinungsdatum	25.04.2018
Zusatzinfo	Black & white photographs and illustrations throughout
Verlagsort	Tuscon, AZ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	204 x 254 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Gesunde Küche / Schlanke Küche
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-13	9780692938744 / 9780692938744
Zustand	Neuware