Spring: the cruelest months
Eating my way through house and homeland
Purging the canned, making room for the fresh
Coping with death, and the life thereafter
Riding the dunes and finding the ghosts
Dead chemicals or peaches eaten alive
Summer: the fertile months
Saguaro fruit and cactus icons
Mesquite tortillas and duck eggs
Tomato hornworms and summer storms
Scouting for wild greens and chiles
Seed saving and foraging in the heartland
The frontera grill and the frontiers of technology
From toxic cornfields to rattlesnake roadkills
Autumn: the feasting months
The headwaters and the foodshed
The fertile valleys and their wild varmints
Sea turtle soup and by-catch stew
The nomad's movable feast and the taste of island chicken
Hunting mushrooms and grilling salmon
Winter: the reflective months
Of vinegars fermented and memories curdled
The WTO in Seattle, and the spirit of St. Louis
Hunting quail and stalking scavengers
Mexico's breadbasket of toxins and migrants
The desert walk for heritage and health.
