Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience

Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Re- silience. By Enrique Salmón. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012. 184 pp., $17.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3011-3.

With its roots planted in present-day food politics, interdisciplinary scholar- ship in food studies often criticizes modern eaters' alienations from their food sources. Enrique Salmón repeats these criticisms, but finds some hopeful al- ternatives to the twenty-first century's alienated foodways in the ongoing de- velopment of indigenous micro-agriculture by native and non-native people across the greater Southwest. Salmón focuses his study on the small farms, gardens, and acequias (community-operated watercourses) of Hopis, Navajos, O'odhams, Seris, Rarámuris, and other people living in the mountains and deserts of Arizona, Chihuahua, New Mexico, and Sonora. Here are grown a diverse variety of peppers, beans, corn, squash, apples, and other crops,...