Gary Paul Nabhan: 19 books

Book cover of Why Some Like It Hot

Why Some Like It Hot

Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity

by Gary Paul Nabhan
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006

Do your ears burn whenever you eat hot chile peppers? Does your face immediately flush when you drink alcohol? Does your stomach groan if you are exposed to raw milk or green fava beans? If so, you are probably among the one-third of the world's human population that is sensitive to certain foods...
Book cover of Chasing Chiles

Chasing Chiles

Hot Spots along the Pepper Trail

by Gary Paul Nabhan, Kraig Kraft, Kurt Michael Friese
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011

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...
Book cover of People, Plants and Protected Areas

People, Plants and Protected Areas

A Guide to in Situ Management

by John Tuxill, Gary Paul Nabhan, with Elizabeth Drexler
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

Conservation of plant resources is often focused on seed banks and botanical gardens. However, the two authors of this volume present a comprehensive conservation strategy that complements this ex-situ approach with practical guidance on in-situ management and conservation of plant resources. The...
Book cover of Last Water on the Devil's Highway

Last Water on the Devil's Highway

A Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas

by Bill Broyles, Gayle Harrison Hartmann, Thomas E. Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014

The Devil’s Highway—El Camino del Diablo—crosses hundreds of miles and thousands of years of Arizona and Southwest history. This heritage trail follows a torturous route along the U.S. Mexico border through a lonely landscape of cactus, desert flats, drifting sand dunes, ancient lava flows,...
Book cover of 香料漂流記:孜然、駱駝、旅行商隊的全球化之旅
by 蓋瑞.保羅.納卜漢(Gary Paul Nabhan)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: November 2, 2017

◆2014年Gourmand Award最佳阿拉伯飲食文化圖書大獎 香料發展是鍊金術也是化學、是文化史也是自然史 是飲食帝國主義也是跨大陸與跨文化的合作 帶領讀者在埃及石棺中,解讀兩千三百年前香料交易的銘文 從市集、圖書館、檔案館、博物館裡發現歷史的香氣與滋味 走過阿拉伯半島、非洲之角親見乾荒之地的芳香 作者以生動的文字,帶領讀者踏上漫漫時空之旅,一探香料貿易與料理帝國主義之間的關聯。他從家族過去的香料商人開始談起,搭配旅行見聞與歷史故事,並發揮自己在種族植物學方面的專長,訴說閃族人與沙漠植物群在香料貿易的全球化舞台上,扮演何種重要角色。 作者親自走訪四大商路(絲路、乳香之路、香料之路,以及運送巧克力與辣椒的皇家大道),跟著來往各地的香料商人商隊,從乳香的採集地、阿拉伯半島的古老港口,前往中國泉州港、美國西南部的聖塔菲。他以故事、食譜、文化傳播路徑的語言分析,闡述孜然、肉桂、番紅花、胡椒等香料如何在世界各地不同的料理中成為要角。他也同時主張,一般人常認為彼此衝突的阿拉與猶太文化,在歷史上絕大多數的時間其實是香料貿易的合作夥伴,從而說明人類未來應創造出更良善、更包容多元文化的全球化社會。 【名家推薦】 本書內容如史詩般磅礡浩瀚,故事橫跨各個大陸、穿越數千年,探索香料貿易如何推動全球化過程。作者能以廣泛、跨學科的觀點,訴說精彩的故事。他生動地將古老香料之路上的歷史人物與自己的旅行經驗娓娓道來,對跨文化的語言與料理現象有獨到觀察,並反思香料貿易如何影響自己家族的遷移。任何喜歡飲食與歷史的人,都會喜愛這本書。 ——《發酵聖經》作者山鐸.卡茲(Sandor...
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