Gary Nabhan

Writer, professor, and conservationist Gary Paul Nabhan is the director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, a Western States Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, Nabhan is author of Coming Home to Eat, The Forgotten Pollinators, and Why Some Like it Hot, among other books.

    Gary's Upcoming Events

    • Gary Nabhan at Flavors without Borders event thru 11/22
      Rex Ranch, Amado AZ
      November 21, 2008, 9:00 am

      Gary Nabhan will speak at the Flavors Without Borders event taking place November 21-22 in Amado, AZ. Visit Gary's website to learn more.

    • Gary Nabhan keynote at ACRES conference
      December 4, 2008, 7:00 pm

      Gary Nabhan will deliver the keynote speech at the ACRES USA conference on December 4th in St. Louis, Missouri. Visit www.acresusa.com to learn more.

    • Gary Nabhan at Pima County Library
      Pima Community College, West Proscenium Theatre, Tucson AZ
      December 9, 2008, 7:00 pm

      Gary Nabhan will deliver the Lawrence Clark Powell Memorial Lecture for the Pima County Library on December 9th at 7:00 pm.

    • Gary Nabhan at National Hispanic Cultural Center
      February 13, 2009, 1:15 pm

      On February 13th at 1:15 pm, Gary Nabhan will give a keynote speech at a symposium on Aldo Leopold and the Southwest at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque NM.

    Gary's Books

    Renewing America's Food Traditions

    Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods

    Renewing America’s Food Traditions is a beautifully illustrated dramatic call to recognize, celebrate, and conserve the great diversity of foods that gives North America its distinctive culinary identity that reflects our multicultural heritage. It offers us rich natural and cultural histories as well as recipes and folk traditions associated with the rarest food plants and animals in North America. In doing so, it reminds us that what we choose to eat can either conserve or deplete the cornucopia of our continent.