Tag: tunas

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Native Foods: KPBS video

Thank you Jill Replogle, who shot the photo above, and the video, from KPBS Fronteras Desk. Here is the link with photos and transcript.

/ November 24, 2011
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Traditional Foods Bank Project / Barbara Drake

Video and Music by Josh Knoff, CSUSM alum VoiceOver by Barbara Drake, Tongva elder, California Native Plants Specialist, and co-founder of the Preserving Our […]

/ May 12, 2011
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prickly pear / tuna juice processing

I love this painting, El Tunero, or Prickly Pear Gatherer, by Fernando Castillo, 1937. Only a few of Castillo’s paintings survive in private collections. […]

/ October 14, 2009
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prickly pear cactus tuna and cochineal

Cochineal colonizing the prickly pear cactus tunas in my neighborhood. A couple of years ago, I went to a cochineal farm in Oaxaca where they […]

/ September 28, 2009
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prickly pear tunas / Opuntia spp.

Lydia Vassar gathering tunas of the prickly pear using kitchen tongs and gloves. These have many more spinas than the Opuntia ficus-indica prickly pear, […]

/ September 7, 2009
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mastering the art of native american cooking: prickly pear tunas

Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o’clock in the morning. […]

/ September 7, 2009
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