Winner of the 2018 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Award for "Reference & Technical" A beautiful culinary and ethnobotanical

An IACP Cookbook Award-winning survey of 200 types of peppers and more than 40 pan-Latin recipes from a three-time James Beard Award-winning author and chef-res

Draws on disciplines as diverse as anthropology, ethnobotany, and agronomy to trace the biological and cultural history of the crops indigenous to the Americas

A groundbreaking treatment of heritage survival in African and African American cooking.

For more than ten thousand years, humans have been fascinated by a seemingly innocuous plant with bright-colored fruits that bite back when bitten. Ancient New