Local Food Books Make Tasteful Gifts
Last Updated December 01, 2018
We’re always on the lookout for good food books we can gift during the holidays (or keep for ourselves). It’s a bonus when the author is from our region or when the subject matter is Southwestern. Here are some recent additions to our regional bookshelf.
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Looking for more? See ediblephoenix.com/southwestbooks for more regional cookbook gems including the newly published This Immeasurable Place: Food and Farming from the Edge of the Wilderness by the women of Hell’s Backbone Grill (2018).
Homemade for the Holidays
Homemade for the Holidays
By Thanksgiving & Co. (Grateful Ink, 2018)
The cookbook is from Grateful Ventures (parent of Thanksgiving.com...
Eat Mesquite and More: A Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Foods and Living
Eat Mesquite and More: A Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Foods and Living by Desert Harvesters (RainSource Press, 2017). Order at...
Mesquite: An Arboreal Love Affair
Mesquite: An Arboreal Love AffairBy Gary Paul Nabhan (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018)
This whimsical, lyrical, anthropomorphic look at our...
Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities
Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities
By Gary Paul Nabhan (Island Press, 2018)
On a more serious note, Nabhan...
Waste Not: How to Get the Most from Your Food
Local Chef Charleen Badman of FnB Restaurant contributed a recipe for Grilled Bread Salad with Tomatoes and Peaches to the James Beard...
The Taco Stand
For kids ages 4–10, consider The Taco Stand by local Someburros restaurateur Tim S. Vasquez (Toodaloo Publishing Co., 2019).
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