Cactus, Corn, and Cattle: 10,000 years of food in Southeastern Arizona
Learn about our food pilgrimage, where family supper tables and the city's trendiest restaurants feature native desert plants and innovative dishes incorporating ancient agricultural staples. Award-winning writer/historian Carolyn Niethammer will show how the Sonoran Desert's first farmers grew tasty crops that continue to influence menus and how the Indigenous peoples, Mexicans, missionaries, Spanish soldiers, and Chinese farmers influenced what Arizonans eat.
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