Gary Paul Nabhan
Auteur de Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
A propos de l'auteur
He is a prize-winning author & naturalist, lives in Tucson, where he is director of conservation biology at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum & cofounder of Native Seeds/Search. (Bowker Author Biography)
Crédit image: Photo credit: Chris Hinkle
Séries
Œuvres de Gary Paul Nabhan
Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods (2004) 82 exemplaires
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty (2013) 59 exemplaires
Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn (The Southwest Center) (1993) — Directeur de publication — 26 exemplaires
Desert Terroir: Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands (Ellen and Edward Randall Series) (2012) 22 exemplaires
Jesus for Farmers and Fishers: Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System (2021) 14 exemplaires
Ethnobiology for the Future: Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity (Southwest Center Series) (2016) 6 exemplaires
Ironwood: An Ecological and Cultural Keystone of the Sonoran Desert (Occasional Papers in Conservation Biology) (1995) 5 exemplaires
Por qué a algunos les gusta el picante. Alimentos, genes y diversidad cultural (Spanish Edition) (2006) 2 exemplaires
Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America (Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Studies in… (2004) 2 exemplaires
Singing the Turtles to Sea 1 exemplaire
Toward water-Resilient Agriculture in Arizona 1 exemplaire
Roots of the Past, Seeds of the Future 1 exemplaire
Making room for milkweeds and monarchs 1 exemplaire
Woodlands in Crisis: A Legacy of Lost Biodiversity on the Colorado Plateau (Biby Research Center Occasional Papers No.… (2004) 1 exemplaire
Renewing America's food traditions (RAFT) : bringing cultural and culinary mainstays of the past into the new… 1 exemplaire
The Changing Faces in Arizona's Food System: Green Paper #1 of the Center for Regional Food STudies 1 exemplaire
Linking Arizona's Sense of Place to a Sense of Taste 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture (2007) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 151 exemplaires
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (2002) — Contributeur — 78 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1952-03-17
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Gary, Indiana, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Gary, Indiana, USA
Tucson, Arizona, USA - Études
- University of Arizona (PhD|1983)
University of Arizona (MS|Horticulture|1978)
Prescott College (AB|Environmental Biology|1974) - Professions
- agricultural ecologist
ethnobotanist - Organisations
- University of Arizona
Native Seeds/SEARCH
Sabores sin Fronteras
Northern Arizona University
University of Arizona - Prix et distinctions
- Lannan Literary Award (Nonfiction, 1999)
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- Œuvres
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- Membres
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- Popularité
- #12,785
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
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- ISBN
- 89
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- Favoris
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And the book isn't bad. Parts are quite good: the conversation about the diversity of human diet and evolution since paleolithic times and the hypothesis that dependent on different genetic makeup people need different foods in order to be healthy (although he seems to view this in a very prescriptive fashion, leaving those of us with mixed genetic ancestry, which, I mean, is nearly everyone these days, to wonder if we need to whole genome sequence ourselves just to answer "what's for dinner?")
I also really enjoyed the chapter on different tasters. I knew that I was a bitter taster from high school bio taste tester strips, but I like many classically bitter foods -- cruciferous vegetables, very dark chocolate, etc., so I had always discounted the idea of chemical tasters, but the chapter really helped explain the spectrum of phenotype and expand it to things that I am averse to (grapefruit, orange pith).
The chapter on G6PD is decent. Anyone who reads popular science with any avidity already knows G6PD, but the speculation about its coincidence not just with regions with malaria but also the timing of the fava season to the malaria season expanding the discussion.
There was a very long discussion at the beginning about Native Americans, alcoholism and diabetes. These topics have been covered at length and certainly Dr. Nabhan explores his personal ties to these issues, but this part is not very scientifically interesting.
His section on MTHFR is probably the poorest -- people are at a cardiac disadvantage if they carry the polymorphism and don't ingest enough folate, and then he concludes that the polymorphism flourished in Northern Europe because it encouraged folate dependence and therefore encouraged selective mating (i.e. mates who did not have access to folate would become sick, allowing people of mating age to select only those with access to folate.) However, that is a pretty flimsy explanation for why there would be a selection advantage for the mutation (versus the wildtype, which would appear fit regardless of access to folate.) It's clear Nabhan is not a geneticist!
Another complaint is that he is obsessed with the idea that we have nutritional diseases. He keeps alluding to the fact that food intolerances are growing and that we as a population are increasingly unhealthy (and hypothesizes it's because we don't eat our specific ancestral food, which, see above re: genelogical prescriptivism.) This is just a pet peeve of mine -- people are mostly getting healthier as time passes.
My biggest complaint overall, though, is how thin the volume is: it includes the chapters I mentioned and another exploring why we eat spicy food and why different people tolerate it more than others and that's it.… (plus d'informations)