Dining with the Desert Museum

Known throughout the world for its comprehensive approach to interpreting the natural history of the Sonoran Desert, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is regularly listed as one of the top ten zoological gardens in the world.  Consistently a leader in its field, the Desert Museum has broken new ground in the area of southwestern food and beverage providing innovative cuisine for its 500,000 annual visitors and special guests.

Created by the Museum’s gifted and committed docents, this cookbook is a compilation of recipes that include some of the best dishes of the Southwest as well as delicious traditional offerings.  Recipes range from tasty cold soups like gazpacho to tantalizing appetizers like stuffed mushrooms to regional entrees and dishes that incorporate native food (mesquite rolls and nopalitos, for example).  In addition, tidbits of information about the Sonoran Desert and the Desert Museum provide fun facts for readers, who will learn how to make a tasty drink for visiting hummingbirds and how to make rich compost fertilizers for garden plants.

This book is a must-have for the complete southwestern kitchen.