The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia: An Ethnographic Journey into Beauty and Hunger

An ethnographic and literary homage to a unique plant from a unique part of Ethiopia. Dr. Peveri takes you deep into the secret ensete gardens of southwestern Ethiopia to explore, taste, and admire this life-nurturing plant and appreciate its role in shaping the culture, identity, and aesthetic values of the Hadiyya community."—Angela Raven-Roberts, Oxford University "Peveri's glorious ethnography offers nuanced understanding of how plant and people meet, of the nostalgia and hope, work and play, love and beauty expressed by ensete and its human relatives. She helps us see like a farmer and see like a perennial tuber. She shares her love for ensete – a botanical relative of the banana — and of the women of Hadiyya who cultivate intimate relations with the plant in gardens and kitchens, even as hybrid maize threatens the plant that has fed people for 200 years." —Harriet Friedmann, University of Toronto