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Can I read Chasing Chiles : Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail on EtoBox?
Chasing Chiles : Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail by Gary Paul Nabhan, Kraig Kraft, Kurt Michael Friese is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Chasing Chiles : Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail about?
__Chasing Chiles__ looks at both the future of place-based foods and the effects of climate change on agriculture through the lens of the chile pepper-from the farmers who cultivate this iconic crop to the cuisines and cultural traditions in which peppers play a huge role. Why chile peppers? Both a spice and a vegetable, chile peppers have captivated imaginations and taste buds for thousands of years. Native to Mesoamerica and the New World, chiles are currently grown on every continent, since their relatively recent introduction to Europe (in the early 1500s via Christopher Columbus). Chiles are delicious, dynamic, and very diverse-they have been rapidly adopted, adapted, and assimilated into numerous world cuisines, and while malleable to a degree, certain heirloom varieties are deeply tied to place and culture-but now accelerating climate change may be scrambling their terroir. Over a year-long journey, three pepper-loving gastronauts-an agroecologist, a chef, and an ethnobotanist-set out to find the real stories of America's rarest heirloom chile varieties, and learn about the changing climate from farmers and other people who live by the pepper, and who, lately, have been adap
Who reads Chasing Chiles : Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gary Paul Nabhan, Kraig Kraft, Kurt Michael Friese
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green Publishing
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781603582506
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Cooking, Home & Lifestyle, Agriculture
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (44 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14