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Desert Food and Fundraiser at La Cocina Restaurant & Cantina

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Presented by Desert Harvesters

Please join us at Tuesdays-for-Tucson @La Cocina Restaurant & Cantina, for our end-of-the-year fundraiser for local non-profit Desert Harvesters, featuring "Eat Mesquite and More: A Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Foods and Living", our award-winning book, perfect for gift-giving season!

Also available will be delicious packaged desert food ingredients, like mesquite flour, barrel cactus seeds, dried cholla buds, dried herbs, etc, for use in cookbook recipes! Other amazing gifts and treats created locally and lovingly will be offered for sale too:
amazing Gift Baskets/Bowls/Boots, Sonoran Desert Food Calendars, Sonoran Desert Chocolate, Barrel Cactus-Citrus Seasonings, Barrel Cactus Seed Gomasio, Mesquite Chocolate Chili Sauce, Mesqcafe, Prickly Pear Agrodolce, etc.

Enjoy delicious food from La Co's regular quality-fusion menu, and add to the fun with beverages from the cantina, like prickly pear or jalapeño margaritas, creosote-infused libations, hard cider, wine, beer, and other cocktails. A percentage of all sales from the night help fund Desert Harvesters' work in the community.


Photo above by Jill Lorenzini 2018


 
Earlier Event: December 11
Tucson Village Farm Holiday Market
Later Event: December 15
NOGALES GASTRONOMIC TOUR