Events › AZ Speaks: Arizona's Ark of Taste Foods

Chef and Cultural Anthropologist Amber Sampson brings you on a journey of taste around Arizona's heritage food history. 

Sampson will expand on Arizona's Ark of Taste, a living catalog of foods facing extinction, including the local, heritage, and native foods that are unique to Arizona's food history. Come learn about favorites, like White Sonora Wheat, tepary beans, and Ark of Taste foods like Black Sphinx dates, cholla buds, chiltepin pepper, and more. In learning about Arizona's food history, the people, producers, communities, and cultures behind each bite, you can better support your local food community and create a more sustainable food system.

Note: This presentation will include Sonoran foraged tea for the audience to enjoy as part of the experience. 

AZ Humanities library discussions are supported in part by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.