Marvel at the Arizona native foods bounty available for those who know where and when and how to harvest them all in a 5-minute musical slide show highlighting just 250 of them at Mark Lewis’ culinary demonstration at the Scottsdale Culinary Festival, 3:30 PM, Sun 14 April.  Our 2500 desert ingredients stand the equals of any in the world!

Stick around for the edible science — the chem and the dem — of “Cactus Branches in the Kitchen” a practical 15-cacti cooking demo showing off what makes working with the different cacti different.

Scottsdale Culinary Festival, Scottsdale Civic Center Mall, 7380 E 2nd St, Old Town Scottsdale https://scottsdalefest.org/