Chasing Chiles; Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail
by Kurt Michael Friese, Kraig Kraft, Gary Paul Habhan
- New
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1603582509
- ISBN 13
- 9781603582506
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011 Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT. 2011. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated First Printing February 2011/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: New; with light rubbing to panels. No DJ. Printed card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 193 pp 8vo In this book, three pepper-loving gastronauts- an agroecologist, a chef, and an ethnobotanist- set out to uncover the sources of America's rarest heirloom chile varieties. They travel to Mexico and across the USA on a pepper pilgrimage to discover the future of place-based foods through lens of the iconic crop. Chiles are grown on every continent and assimilated into many cuisines but are tied to place and culture which does not bode well for the future. A clean pristine copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007733
- Title
- Chasing Chiles; Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail
- Author
- Kurt Michael Friese, Kraig Kraft, Gary Paul Habhan
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1603582509
- ISBN 13
- 9781603582506
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green Publishing
- Place of Publication
- White River Junction, VT
- Date Published
- 2011
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- chile, peppers, Tabasco, climate change, food, spices, Mesoamerica, New World, biodiversity, chile peppers, hot peppers, ghost peppers, Mexican food, New Mexican food, Latin American Food, TexMex menu
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cookbooks;
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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