Devin Kate Pope

Nov 1, 2024 | phoenixmag.com | Devin Kate Pope |Christina Barrueta |Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz |Carolyn Niethammer

Could the Valley soon have its first culinary bookstore? These longtime Phoenix friends are planning on it. by Devin Kate PopeLocal bookstores like Palabras and Changing Hands have robust food sections, but true obsessives want more. Culinary bookstores have popped up in big cities across the country over the past two decades, and two Phoenix friends have a vision for a specifically Sonoran Desert version to meet the desires of the growing city.

Jun 11, 2024 | orionmagazine.org | Devin Kate Pope

In Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance, author Victoria Blanco asks, “What does it mean–physically, spiritually, and emotionally–to exit a system that is bound with the natural world and enter one that is actively working to destroy it?” As she details the ongoing displacement of the Rarámuri people of Chihuahua, Mexico, one of the largest Indigenous tribes of North America, Blanco’s years of rigorous field research and observation bring a clarifying light to the issues of...

Mar 30, 2024 | devinkpope.substack.com | Devin Kate Pope

The Good Enough WeeklyEssays and interviews on food, climate, work, and liberation. Rooted in the Sonoran Desert. No thanks

Sep 8, 2023 | devinkpope.substack.com | Devin Kate Pope

When I got married and moved to WA for my husband’s grad school, I missed cooking for my three younger brothers. I struggled to make the appropriate amount of food for two people. Because of college and work, I didn’t cook for “the boys” as often as when I was younger and we lived together, but when I did they invariably ate with the gratitude and gusto of starving animals. It’s a powerful feeling, feeding hungry people.

Aug 18, 2023 | devinkpope.substack.com | Devin Kate Pope

Last week I cooked two pounds of white tepary beans grown 20.6 miles away by the Button family of Ramona Farms. In addition to heirloom tepary beans, they grow ancient wheat and heritage corn on their 200-acre USDA-certified organic farm in the Akimel O’Odham (Gila River Pima) Community. Tepary beans have grown in the Sonoran desert for thousands of years, demanding little water, long before the name ‘Arizona’ had any meaning.