#Gary Paul Nabhan

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Gary Paul Nabhan, “Food, Genes, and Culture”, 2004, PART THREE (II).

Here I present: Gary Paul Nabhan, “Food, Genes, and Culture”, 2004, PART THREE (III).  The “table of contents” of the book is shown BELOW.  TABLE OF CONTENTS. Chapter ONE (1). Discerning the Histories Encoded in Our Bodies. Chapter TWO (2).  Searching for the Ancestral Diet’.  Did Mitochondrial Eve and Java Man Feast on the Same Foods? Chapter THREE (3). Finding a Bean for Your Genes and a Buffer…

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Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals

By David Suro Piñera and Gary Paul Nabhan.

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Can I ask what book youre reading about flowers and where they come from

currently reading a couple, all wholeheartedly recommended!

- early flowers and angiosperm evolution by else marie friis, peter r. crane, and kaj raunsgaard pedersen - the forgotten pollinators by stephen l. buchmann, gary paul nabhan, and paul mirocha - the ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification, study available here

you can also look at how our globe most likely looked at the time first flowers appeared! what a wonderful thing to think about!

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In the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and Northwest Mexico, many long-time residents claim that with the onset of the summer’s monsoonal rains, a feeling of elation and relief comes as fragrances fill the air in a way that makes it seem as though “the desert smells like rain.” 

For decades, geologists, botanists, atmospheric scientists, and ecologists have debated the causes and triggers of this euphoric sensation. Some scientists have focused on fragrances emitted by cryptogamic or biological soil crusts during rains, while other have focused on the terpentine-like smell of the creosote bush known in Sonoran Spanish as hediondilla, ‘the little stinker.” But now two scientists from the University of Arizona [...] propose a novel, but more comprehensive answer: 

The Sonoran Desert flora is one of the richest in the world in plants that emit fragrant volatile oils, and many of those fragrances confer stress-reducing health benefits to humans, wildlife, and the plants themselves. [...] [T]he biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) [...] evolved to protect plants from damaging solar radiation, heat waves, drought stress and herbivores [...].

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Initially, desert scientists focused their attention on an earthy fragrance called petrichor that is emitted from the biological soil crusts by a compound called geosmin. Geosmin underlies the earthy taste of beetroots, with notes like eucalyptus, cinnamon, and cloves and can be detected by the human nose at concentrations as low as 400 parts per trillion. It is secreted from dead microbes in the soil crusts of many different kinds of landscapes but is now known to be emitted only sporadically in Sonoran Desert soils after summer rains.

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Ecologists who studied the North American deserts then tried to explain this phenomenon through a “single cause” focus on one of the most common plants in the Mohave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan desert: Larrea tridentata, known in English as the creosote-bush. Curiously, it emits more than 35 distinct terpenes and other BVOCs, some of which (like trans-caryophyllene) are generated by an endophytic fungus growing “hidden” within the plant’s tissues. With the onset of monsoons, the high density of shrubs forming “creosote flats” emit terpentine-like fragrances (like isoprene) as potent as any botanical emissions into the atmosphere. Nevertheless, this dominant plant is by no means the only major emitter of BVOCs that give Sonoran Desert habitats their renowned fragrances.

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The new research from the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill has found more than 60 species of 178 native plants in the ancient ironwood-giant cactus forests of the Sonoran Desert which emit fragrant biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) immediately before, during and after rainstorms. [...]  From these desert species, more than 115 volatile oils have been identified, as high a number as is known from any biogeographic region in the world. In particular, the researchers Gary Nabhan, Eric Dougherty and Tammi Hartung identified more than 60 potent fragrances emitted from the foliage and flowers of desert plants during the monsoonal rainy season of the iconic “Sonoran Desert summer.”

The authors hypothesize that a “suite” of 15 particular BVOCs emitted from this diversity of desert plants during the monsoons may function synergistically to generate tangible health benefits. [...].Their accumulation in the atmosphere immediately above desert vegetation can reduce exposure to damaging solar radiation in ways that protect the desert plants themselves, the wildlife which use them as food and shelter, and the humans who dwell among them.

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Text by: Gary Paul Nabhan. “Why Does the Desert Smell Like Rain? New UA Research Suggests the Diverse “Osmocosm” of the Sonoran Desert.” Published under the “News” section online at University of Arizona Press. 13 April 2022.

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While it may somehow be good for us to think and write about plants and animals, I am reminded of John Daniel’s humbling insight while hopping through a snake-laden boulder field: the snakes were not fazed by his thoughts, fears, or needs. As Daniel writes in The Trail Home: “The rattlesnakes beneath the boulders instructed me, in a way no book could have, that the natural world did not exist entirely for my comfort and pleasure; indeed, that it did not particularly care whether my small human life continued to exist at all.”

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Excerpt of the review of this book from the Center for Humans & Nature:

Metamorphosis is not a term typically associated with human animals. As dramatic as such transformations are, the idea that one of us might undergo the process of becoming, say, a tree, stretches the boundaries of the word. Our differences go beyond mere appearances and nutritional preferences, after all. This does not stop ecologist Gary Paul Nabhan from attempting such a feat, after having fallen hopelessly in love with the leguminous, desert-dwelling mesquite tree. His book, Mesquite: An Arboreal Love Affair, documents the journey.

Nabhan’s focus on the mesquite tree may well have been lost on me, who couldn’t spot a mesquite if I walked right into one (it lives in the desert and has pods, right?). Yet the strong undercurrent of “arboreality” got my attention. Nabhan suggests that most of us have never “fully seen, smelled, heard, tasted or been touched by a tree.”

This idea is nearly as absurd as the human-tree metamorphosis, at least at first. What human has not climbed, sat on, sat under, and touched a tree? We all recognize our dependence on oxygen, a waste product of trees and other plants. Many of us have even come to accept that trees communicate with, even defend and support, others in their “communities.” Still, we have hardly shaken the notion of them as hard and unfeeling vehicles for carbon dioxide. They don’t move, see, smell, or hear. This will change, says Nabhan, if we dedicate ourselves to uncovering their hidden attractions. If we do the work, he says, we just might come to see that a tree is in fact “a sentient being of consummate poise, sessile grace, and impeccable instincts. It has the capacity to care for us, to love.”

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“Resurrection,” Alison Hawthorne Deming

My friend a writer and scientist has retreated to a monastery where he has submitted himself out of exhaustion to not knowing. He’s been thinking about the incarnation a.k.a. Big Bang after hearing a monk’s teaching that crucifixion was not the hard part for Christ. Incarnation was. How to squeeze all of that all-of-that into a body. I woke that Easter to think of the Yaqui celebrations taking place in our city the culminating ritual of the Gloria when the disruptive spirits with their clacking daggers and swords are repelled from the sanctuary by women and children throwing cottonwood leaves and confetti and then my mother rose in me rose from the anguish of her hospice bed a woman who expected to direct all the action complaining to her nurse I’ve been here three days and I’m not dead yet—not ready at one hundred and two to give up control even to giving up control. I helped with the morphine clicker. Peace peace peace the stilling at her throat the hazel eye become a glassy marble. Yet here she is an Easter irreverent still rising to dress in loud pastels and turn me loose in Connecticut woods to hunt my basket of marshmallow eggs jelly beans and chocolate rabbit there fakeries of nature made vestal incarnated in their nest of shiny manufactured grass.

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Whether or not you 'like' globalization is an altogether different issue; perhaps for us, it is the equivalent of asking a fish whether it 'likes' water.

Cumin, Camels, and Caravans by Gary Paul Nabhan

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Ooh also do you have any book recommendations?

so there are just so so many good environment related books and these are all wildly different aspects and topics and they should definitely all be read critically! im also especially interested in 1) botany and 2) people and culture, and am british, so there's a definite lean towards all three of those!

braiding sweetgrass, robin wall kimmerer

silent spring, rachel carson

the next great migration, sonia shah

on the origin of evolution, john & mary gribbin

feral by george monbiot

the archipelago of hope, by gleb raygorodetsky

trash animals, edited kelsi nagy

the deep, alex rogers

entangled life, merlin sheldrake

beak, tooth and claw, mary colwell

evolution's rainbow, joan roughgarden

much ado about mothing, james lowen

where our food comes from, gary paul nabhan

in defense of plants, matt candeias

the triumph of seeds, thor hanson

underland, robert macfarlane

the book of trespass, nick hayes

the mushroom at the end of the world, anna tsing

as long as grass grows, dina gilio-whitaker

rebirding, benedict macdonald

islands of abandonment, cal flyn

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Cottage, clothesline and dandelion dor the cottagecore ask thing 🌿💜

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cottage: what does your ideal cottage look like?(pictures optional)

Oh you can bet I’m including pictures 😂. First, description tho: very important that the cottage is situated close to both the beach/ocean and a forest (ideally deciduous but coniferous would work well too). It’s gonna have one of those Classic Overgrown Gardens in the back with LOTS of trellises and xeriscaping. I fully intend to put Bill Mollison and Gary Paul Nabhan’s work into practice in this the era of climate change gardens.

Magical little door leading into garden is required as is one of those circular room things with TONS of windows. Overgrown plants in front and back are also v important to the Vibe.

Also required: rooms/architecture that seem too insanely whimsical to be real. If someone comes up to my house in the middle of the woods, I need them to think “is this real?? When did I step into a fairytale?? IS THAT A WITCH’S COTTAGE?” Room with floor to ceiling books is VERY important. Ideally I’d also have one of the sliding ladder things so I can just zoom across the shelves like an INTP protagonist with a healthy adrenaline addiction.

Insofar as the actual appearance, I love the Classic pointed roofs with smaller attached rooms that also culminate in pointed roofs. There’s a word for this that I just… can’t remember atm. But it’s like this^^

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dandelion: would you rather live in the shire or the hundred acre wood?

Okay honestly I don’t know enough about the shire to weigh these equally in my mind. So by default I have to say hundred acre wood. That could change as soon as I geT a CoPy oF LOTR.

Thanks for this ask!! 💕

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Gary Paul Nabhan, “Food: Genes and Culture”, 2004, PART TWO (II).

  Here I present: Gary Paul Nabhan, “Food, Genes, and Culture”, 2004, PART TWO (II). INTRODUCTION.  “Food: Genes and Culture” is a more exact use of punctuation for Gary Paul Nabhan’s book.  “Food” is equated as equal to “Genes & Culture”.  The “table of contents” of the book is shown BELOW.  TABLE OF CONTENTS. Chapter ONE (1). Discerning the Histories Encoded in Our Bodies. Chapter TWO (2).…

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The Book That Started the Fermentation RevolutionSandor Ellix Katz, winner of a James Beard Award andNew York Timesbestselling author, whomMichael Pollan callsthe Johnny Appleseed of Fermentation returns to the iconic book that started it all, but with a fresh perspective, renewed enthusiasm, and expandedwisdomfrom his travels around the world.This self-described fermentation revivalistis perhaps best known simply as Sandorkraut, which describes his joyful and demystifying approach to making and eating fermented foods, the health benefits of which have helped launch a nutrition-based food revolution.Since its publication in 2003, and aided by Katz s engaging and fervent workshop presentations, Wild Fermentationhas inspired people to turn their kitchens into food labs: fermenting vegetables into sauerkraut, milk into cheese or yogurt, grains into sourdough bread, and much more. In turn, they ve traded batches, shared recipes, and joined thousands of others on a journey of creating healthy food for themselves, their families, and their communities. Katz s work earned him the Craig Clairborne lifetime achievement award from the Southern Foodways Alliance, and has been called one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene by TheNew York Times.This updated and revised edition, now with full color photos throughout, is sure to introduce a whole new generation to the flavors and health benefits of fermented foods. It features many brand-new recipes including Strawberry Kvass, African Sorghum Beer, and Infinite Buckwheat Bread and updates and refines original recipes reflecting the author sever-deepening knowledge of global food traditions that has influenced four-star chefs and home cooks alike. For Katz, his gateway to fermentation was sauerkraut. So open this book to find yours, and start a little food revolution right in your own kitchen.Praise for Sandor Ellix Katz and his booksThe Art of Fermentation is an extraordinary book, and an impressive work of passion and scholarship. Deborah Madison, author of Local FlavorsSandor Katz has proven himself to be the king of fermentation. Sally Fallon Morell, President, The Weston A. Price FoundationSandor Katz has already awakened more people to the diversity and deliciousness of fermented foods than any other single person has over the last century. Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier LandThe fermenting bible. NewsweekIn a country almost clinically obsessed with sterilization Katz reminds us of the forgotten benefits of living in harmony with our microbial relatives. Grist

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hope these might be interesting. round 1. round 2:

Titles and short descriptions below:

-- The Platypus and The Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (Harriet Ritvo -- 1998 -- The Victorian-era craze for taxonomic classification, dichotomies, human-animal separations, monsters, and hierarchization of animals among formal institutions, naturalists, Euro-American scientists, etc. Showmen, media, scientific professionals, and folk cultures vying to establish hierarchies and definitions of life through language and animal-naming systems.)

-- An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation (Micha Rahder -- 2020 -- Human and other-than-human relationships, multitude of knowledge systems vs. monoculture of knowledge, the tension and negotiation between multiple coexisting “ways of knowing the world,” and conflicts involving dispossession, extractivism, state violence, Euro-American conservation groups, and local Indigenous people in the Maya Biosphere region of Guatemala.)

-- Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation (Ikuko Asaka -- 2017.)

-- Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction (Natania Meeker and Antonia Szabari -- 2019 -- “Imagining new worlds” in contrast to modernity, dualism, and rigid distinctions and hierarchies between human and other-than-human by engaging with plant lifeforms.)

-- Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species (Edited by Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson  -- 2013 -- Uncomfortable or unsettling interspecies relationships; includes writing on wolves, carp, rattlesnakes, pigeons, etc.)

-- Singing the Turtles to Sea: The Comcaac (Seri) Art and Science of Reptiles (Gary Paul Nabhan -- Comcaac relationship with reptiles of the Sonoran Desert and Gulf of California.)

-- Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World (Edited by Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan -- Anthology of articles/essays about the central role of plantations in imperialism and the role of botanists as “agents of empire”, edited by one of the field’s most respected scholars, Schiebinger.)

-- Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Edited by Cary Wolfe -- 2003 -- Collection of a few essays about the boundaries and borderlands between the animal and the human.)

-- No Species Is An Island: Bats, Cacti and Secrets of the Sonoran Desert (Theodore Fleming -- 2017 -- Text and illustrations exploring the decade-long research into nighttime lives of bats, moths, and cacti in the Sonoran Desert. With info about the relationship between moths and senita cactus, and the essential role of long-nosed bats in pollinating cacti.)

-- A World of Many Worlds (Edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser -- 2018 -- Anthology from multiple scholars about different conceptions of ecology/the cosmos and the tension between Indigenous and Euro-American scientific ways of knowing, with extra focus on multispecies worlding/ways of knowing from Latin America.)

-- Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind (Eileen Crist -- 1999 -- How language and animal-naming conventions are not innocent or neutral; how language used to describe animals and their experience can deny the sentience of, autonomy of, or compassion for other-than-human creatures.)

-- The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856 (Ralph O’Connor -- 2007 -- Fun look at how the storytelling, showmanship, and display of dinosaur and Pleistocene fossils in Europe and the US reinforced existing colonial/hierarchical narratives about “progress” and had a heavy influence on how media and pop-sci disc0urses have framed science, deep time, climate change, and natural history ever since.)

-- Centering Animals in Latin American History (Edited by Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici -- 2013 -- Collection of articles/essays from multiple scholars “seeking to include” other-than-human creatures as “social actors in the histories” of “colonial and postcolonial Latin America” including writing on dog funerals, use of animal in colonization campaigns, the commodification of animals, and animals in political symbolism.

-- Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands (Andrew Stuhl -- 2016.)

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"Along the Southwest Border, Trump’s Wall Is Only One of the Insults He Left Behind" by BY GARY PAUL NABHAN AND AUSTIN NUÑEZ via NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2NtmsnK

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