Some people take home T-SHIRT from a trip. I bring home food. They are souvenirs that I took home from last visit Tucson: Tepary beans, Cholla peppers, White Sonora Baia, Bagnela, three-legged flour, five breadchilds, roasted oaks and oak squash.
Recognized UNESCO Gastronomy Annual Year For cooking traditions, Tucson has remains of watering canals built by Hohokam over 4,000 years ago. To the north of the Mexican edge, the Sonoran desert is amazing. I visited winterBut he also flooded the Santa Cruz River during the summer Moniola. Indigenous people have been hunting, hunting, hunting and eventually cultivating corn, beans and squash. Spanish 1500. It arrived in the decade, and up to 1854 was Mexican. The following generations, Americans, Spanish, Mexican and Anglo traditions have linked each other to create a significant food culture.
Come and I came. James Beard Award winner Güero caneloI swallowed the dogs in Sonoran, wrapped in bacon and draped in beans, tomatoes and onions. I ate Carne Seca CharThe oldest Mexican restaurant in the country and grilled breakfast burritos Barrista del Barrio. I had been scrapped Seis Kitchen’s Prickly Pear Agua fresca, “Carnitas” is vegetarian TumerocoAnd a single Malt Whiskey turned the passionate Whiskey del bac. I went shopping Barrio breadWhen the owner works with Sonora White Wheat, Spanish mission beads worked with local teams and non-profit work. In the afternoon, I had dinner at the nearby restaurants Tito & PepWhere Cortez Sea Shrimp Shrew Share with Mass Dumplings, and Sonoran Italy Place Uncle PeppeVodka sauce version is done with Tequila. At the farm table restaurant ChildI fucked in the mushrooms fermented condiment with Kosho, Chiles and citrus; Carnitas Poblano and sweet potato miso; and smoked pumpkin sorbet.
Between the two, with farmers and botanic, I told me more about the flavors I tasted. I started Mission gardenLive Agricultural Museum in the remains of a Spanish colonial mission. The garden is fixed at the site of a village Tohono O’odham, at the foot of the Sentinel Summit.
Claire Hong, docent, showed me around. As he walked and talked, he stated three gardens: Mexican was in the style of Mexico; Another was established the railway and were similar to the Chinese workers who remained farmers; And the last appeared in Africa, starting with the Moors from Spain. The Ikastolas in the field explored indigenous crops (green striped kushaw squash, copper cone) or Spanish trees brought after the trees and citrus. “To get a lot of voices,” Hong told me. “We are representing indigenous views, but Spanish colonialism is also part of our history. So it’s a complex space.”
I saw that complexity that acts to the Tohono O’odham Nation Reserve, south of the city. There, the white pigeon of the desert, the 1767 Mission in the San Xavier del Ea de España spreads its dark and vigorous-style wings. I admired in front of the fresh, but my destination was the next door, 860 hectares San Xavier Ko-op farm, where visitors can buy food and crafts for visitors.
“Always agriculture, corn and squash,” Amy Juan, tohono O’odham farmham, but this community has a great influence on missionaries, so they also include foods like figs and melon. “We’ve seen the wells left by the Alfalfa. After the Santa Cruz win in 1982, the nation had left agriculture.” We didn’t know how to do it. “Tohono O’odham’s kids never knew what Topears.
