Two Southern Arizonan nonprofit organizations, Native Seeds/SEARCH and Tohono O’odham Community Action, are working to promote wild food sources and desert tolerant crops in the region. Before Arizona became known for its cotton and citrus, before farmers moved west to tame the land, before Spanish explorers first set their eyes on the Grand Canyon, the Tohono O’odham…
In a 1900s building on Main Street in Bisbee, Rod Kass unleashes his passion for food. Café Roka’s long-term success demonstrates one man’s dream to thrive in a fast growing industry where failure is high and success is limited. Enthralled by cooking since a young age, Kass remembers admiring the fast movements in diners with…
Restaurants are starting to recognize a growing dining trend that might not be good for business. Folks sit down at the table and immediately pick up their cell phones. Many never put them down. “I don’t get it.” Said Raoul Villa, a manager at Flagstaff’s Dara Thai restaurant. “People are so taken by their phones, there’s…
Tucson holds a weekend-long celebration to remember its dead. Sedona has a small gathering in a shopping center for Día de los Muertos. And in Tubac for the first time they are celebrating at a town park, resurrecting a festival that has been largely absent for years. But no matter where they celebrate and how,…
Fast-casual pizzerias, the kind that let you build your own pizza and have it ready to eat in three minutes or less, are popping up throughout Arizona. Tucson alone has seen three fast-casual restaurant open since early August — two of them located across the street from the University of Arizona campus and the third a…
