A Desert Feast

A Desert Feast. Celebrating Tucson's Culinary Heritage by Carolyn Niethammer. The Southwest Center Series. Joseph C. Wilder, Editor (The University of Arizona Press, 2020).  Oversized Softcover book in Very Good condition. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Southwest Book of the Year Award Winner Pubwest Book Design Award Winner Drawing on thousands of years of foodways, Tucson cuisine blends the influences of Indigenous, Mexican, mission-era Mediterranean, and ranch-style cowboy food traditions. This book offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became American’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy.Both family supper tables and the city’s trendiest restaurants feature native desert plants and innovative dishes incorporating ancient agricultural staples. Award-winning writer Carolyn Niethammer deliciously shows how the Sonoran Desert’s first farmers grew tasty crops that continue to i