"In our molecules and in our dreams, we really are what we eat. Eating close to home is not just a matter of convenience - it is an act of deeply sensual, cultural, and environmental significance.".

"Gary Paul Nabhan's experience with food permeates his life as a first-generation Lebanese American, as an avid gardener and subsistence hunter-gatherer, as an ethnobotanist preserving seed diversity, and as an activist devoted to recovering native food traditions to restore the health of Native Americans in the Southwest.

To rediscover what it might mean to "know your foodshed," he spent a year trying to eat only foods grown, fished, or gathered within two hundred miles of his home - with surprising results. In Coming Home to Eat, Nabhan draws these experiences together in a book that is a culmination of his life's work - and a vibrant portrait of our essential human relation to the foods that truly nourish us, affirming our bonds to family, community, landscape, and season."--BOOK JACKET.