Título: Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots along the Pepper Trail
Autor: Gary Paul Nabhan, Kraig Kraft, Kurt Michael Friese
Sinopse: 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 a spice and a vegetable, chile peppers have captivated imaginations and taste buds for thousands of years. Native to Mesoamerica and the New World, chiles are currently grown on every continent, since their relatively recent introduction to Europe (in the early 1500s via Christopher Columbus). Chiles are delicious, dynamic, and very diverse-they have been rapidly adopted, adapted, and assimilated into numerous world cuisines, and while malleable to a degree, certain heirloom varieties are deeply tied to place and culture-but now accelerating climate change may be scrambling their terroir. Over a year-long journey, three pepper-loving gastronauts-an agroecologist, a chef, and an ethnobotanist-set out to find the real stories of America's rarest heirloom chile varieties, and learn about the changing climate from farmers and other people who live by the pepper, and who, lately, have been adapting to shifting growing conditions and weather patterns. They put a face on an issue that has been made far too abstract for our own good. Chasing Chiles is not your archetypal book about climate change, with facts and computer models delivered by a distant narrator. On the contrary, these three dedicated chileheads look and listen, sit down to eat, and get stories and recipes from on the ground-in farmers' fields, local cafes, and the desert-scrub hillsides across North America. From the Sonoran Desert to Santa Fe and St. Augustine (the two oldest cities in the U.S.), from the marshes of Avery Island in Cajun Louisiana to the thin limestone soils of the Yucatan, this book looks at how and why climate change will continue to affect our palates and our producers, and how it already has.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots along the Pepper Trail”, de Gary Paul Nabhan, Kraig Kraft, Kurt Michael Friese, publicado pela editora Chelsea Green Publishing, em 2011 e com 224 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Chelsea Green Publishing
Páginas: 224
Ano: 2011
Edição: Illustrated
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781603582506
ISBN13: 9781603582506
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Chelsea Green Publishing trazem um olhar aprofundado e prático sobre temas ligados à agricultura regenerativa, sustentabilidade e ciência aplicada à saúde e meio ambiente. A leitura costuma mesclar abordagens técnicas e narrativas que conectam história, biologia e práticas cotidianas, como compostagem comunitária, fermentação de alimentos e cultivo de grãos em pequena escala. O catálogo sugere um equilíbrio entre obras mais informativas e outras que exploram histórias pessoais ou científicas, com um tom que varia do didático ao reflexivo. A linguagem é acessível, mas com densidade suficiente para leitores interessados em entender processos complexos e suas implicações práticas.
