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Sabores Sin Fronteras/Flavors Without Borders Launches “Taco Diplomacy” Food Wagon

Sabores Sin Fronteras/Flavors Without Borders Launches “Taco Diplomacy” Food Wagon

An artisan-crafted Taco Diplomacy Food Wagon was recently launched as a provocative food art exhibit to remind its viewers of the many flavors without borders that enrich the lives of our region. It was inaugurated the weekend of October 13 to 15, 2011, where over 100,000 Arizonans and Sonorans gathered at Tucson Meet Yourself to [...]

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Food archaeologist gives new life to nearly extinct grains, veggies

Food archaeologist gives new life to nearly extinct grains, veggies

Gary Nabhan has written stacks of research papers about culture, archaeology and food for academic journals, and has authored at least a dozen books, some meant for popular consumption, others the academic kind whose titles have colons and subtitles that are longer than the main title.

But the gist of his high-minded, dense research is this: People lived here thousands of years ago and they must have eaten something.

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Old-style apples from yore making a comeback in US orchards

Old-style apples from yore making a comeback in US orchards

After nearly disappearing from the marketplace, apple varieties that were popular decades or even centuries ago are making a resurgence. The varieties, known as antique or heirloom apples, number in the thousands and carry names such as Sheepnose, American Mother, Lady Sweet and Nickajack.

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Grant Funds Endowed Chair in UA Southwest Center

Grant Funds Endowed Chair in UA Southwest Center

A generous investment from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich. is helping the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences create an endowed faculty chair to lead its new Sustainable Food Systems Program in Southwest Borderlands Food and Water Security.

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