Find Your Park Series: National Park Agriculture and Heritage Food Stories – Tucson

Saturday, April 1

National Park Agriculture and Heritage Food Stories

Presented by: Greg McNamee

12 PM & 2 PM

Consider the taco, that favorite treat, a staple of Mexican and Mexican American cooking and an old standby on an Arizonan’s plate. The corn in the tortilla comes from the Valley of Mexico, the cheese from Anatolia, the lettuce from Egypt, the onion from Syria, the pinto beans from central Mexico, the tomatoes and peppers from the Caribbean coast, the chicken (optional, of course) from Indochina, the beef (ditto) from the steppes of Eurasia. Add a chimichanga, that Arizona invention, and you introduce wheat from what is now northern Iraq into the mix. Add rice, and you travel to East China; add olives, and the eastern Mediterranean comes into view. The foods of Arizona speak to the many cultures, native and newcomer, that make up our state. Join Gregory McNamee, the author of Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food and many other books, in exploring these many traditions.

For reservations, please call 520-622-6014 during business hours, beginning one week prior to the event.

More information at: http://www.wnpa.org/fyp-cs/http://www.wnpa.org/fyp-cs/

This program is supported by a grant from Arizona Humanities.