United States of America
Named cooks and living food traditions
The Sonoran folio follows a particular Arizona community garden account. Two complete contemporary tepary-bean preparations offer a way into the ingredient: cooked beans with onion and chile, and a roasted-pepper dip. Their independent editorial formulas are kept separate from the community account.
From the kitchen
Something to bring to your table.
RecipeCooked tepary beans with onion and chile
A contemporary preparation of already cooked tepary beans, softened onion and a little fresh chile.
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A contemporary editorial recipe using the tepary bean, offered beside the documented Arizona garden account. The garden source supports the ingredient context, not this formula, an origin claim, community endorsement or a traditional O’odham recipe.
RecipeTepary bean and roasted pepper dip
Cooked tepary beans blended with roasted red pepper, garlic and lemon into a contemporary dip.
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A contemporary editorial recipe using the tepary bean, offered beside the documented Arizona garden account. The garden source supports the ingredient context, not this formula, an origin claim, community endorsement or a traditional O’odham recipe.
Meet the ingredients
Plants beside these readings.
Ingredients and plants in the selected sources; their presence here does not establish a native range or origin.
People, practice & time
Stay for the story.
Sonoran Desert ↗
A community garden connects tepary beans, a seed bank, and the next generation of growers.
One contemporary community garden account. It does not speak for every O’odham community or prescribe desert growing conditions.
Tepary beans: harvest and keeping ↗
White and brown tepary beans were allowed to dry before harvest in the reported field. Separating pods from seeds belongs to the work between growing and cooking.
One contemporary community garden account. It does not speak for every O’odham community or prescribe desert growing conditions.
THE THINGS WE PASS ON
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Keep the source beside the place.
The national map locates a documented garden; it does not define Indigenous territory. The two contemporary preparations are ingredient companions, not Ramona or Velvet Button’s recipes, community-endorsed formulas or traditional O’odham reconstructions.
Chris Picciuolo · O’odham Action News · Community Garden Harvests Tepary Beans From New Field ↗ https://oan.srpmic-nsn.gov/community-garden-harvests-tepary-beans-from-new-field/
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One ingredient, many tables
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Follow this trail →03 · 4 stopsThe many preparations of lentils
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Read the kimjang account, then examine a separate contemporary fresh cabbage preparation without treating the two as the same recipe.
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