Gary Paul Nabhan

Benjamin Drummond

Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally celebrated nature writer, food and farming activist, and proponent of conserving the links between biodiversity and cultural diversity. He holds the W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Arizona Southwest Center. His new book is "Against the American Grain."

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Awards: MacArthur Fellow, John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Southwest Book Award, Vavilov Medal, Takreem Foundation Laureate in the Arab World, James Beard Medal for Writing

Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan, Neurodivergent, Person with a Disability, Arab-American

Books:

Against the American Grain

A Borderlands History of Resistance
History / Biography
University of New Mexico Press
October 2024
ISBN 9780826366979
Hardcover, 232 pages

Gary Paul Nabhan illuminates the outlines of a history too long in the shadows. Whether Indigenous, LatinnX, priests, nuns, Quakers, or cross-cultural chameleons, it is the resisters, performers, grassroots organizers, nomads, and spiritual performers from the desert margins who are constantly reshaping America. They have, against all odds, recolored and recovered the future of North America through outrageous acts of resistance. More/less

Chile, Clove, and Cardamom

A Gastronomic Journey Into the Fragrances and Flavors of Desert Cuisines
Culinary
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
October 2024
ISBN 9781645022459
Paperback, 208 pages

Recipes from the vibrant and diverse culinary traditions of the hottest and driest places on earth, including the aromatic and arid-adapted traditions from Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and the shared U. S.-Mexico deserts, compiled by two James Beard Award-winning writers. More/less