Cooking the Wild Southwest: Delicious Recipes for Desert Plants

by Carolyn Niethammer

Over the last few decades, interest in eating locally has grown quickly. From just-picked apples in Washington to fresh peaches in Georgia, local food movements and farmer's markets have proliferated all over the country. Desert dwellers in the Southwest are taking a new look at prickly pear, mesquite, and other native plants.

Many people's idea of cooking with southwestern plants begins and ends with prickly pear jelly. With this update to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816529191
• ISBN13: 9780816529193
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.2"