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Summary
A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
2023 Southwest Book of the Year Selection
"The arid land that starts in Arizona and stretches into Mexico's west coast is Ronstadt's foothold in the world. It's a story she has told through music, and now wants to tell through food."-- The New York Times
"The book is many things at once. It's a portrait of a place, the Sonoran Desert, and it's a genealogy of sorts, an archival romp through Ronstadt's family history."-- Vogue
"An album of loves for the high desert of Sonora and Ronstadt's hometown of Tucson."-- NPR
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Linda Ronstadt takes readers on a journey to the place her soul calls home, the Sonoran Desert, in this candid new memoir.
In Feels Like Home , Grammy award-winning singer Linda Ronstadt effortlessly evokes the magical panorama of the high desert, a landscape etched by sunlight and carved by wind, offering a personal tour built around meals and memories of the place where she came of age. Growing up the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants and a descendant of Spanish settlers near northern Sonora, Ronstadt's intimate new memoir celebrates the marvelous flavors and indomitable people on both sides of what was once a porous border whose denizens were happy to exchange recipes and gather around campfires to sing the ballads that shaped Ronstadt's musical heritage. Following her bestselling musical memoir, Simple Dreams , this book seamlessly braids together Ronstadt's recollections of people and their passions in a region little understood in the rest of the United States. This road trip through the desert, written in collaboration with former New York Times writer Lawrence Downes and illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs by Bill Steen, features recipes for traditional Sonoran dishes and a bevy of revelations for Ronstadt's admirers. If this book were a radio signal, you might first pick it up on an Arizona highway, well south of Phoenix, coming into the glow of Ronstadt's hometown of Tucson. It would be playing something old and Mexican, from a time when the border was a place not of peril but of possibility.
Author Notes
Linda Maria Ronstadt was born on July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona. She is an American pop music singer who is known internationally because of her many multi-platinum-selling albums. Ronstadt's family is noteworthy in Arizona for their contribution to the state's history, including wagon making, commerce, pharmacies and music. The family is detailed as such in the library at the University of Arizona.
Ronstadt's parents were of German, English and Mexican ancestry. She established her career in the 1960s and became the lead singer of a group called The Stone Poneys. Ronstadt toured with The Doors, Neil Young and Jackson Browne. In the 1970s, she became a solo artist and rose to become the top-grossing female concert artist of the decade. She appeared six times on the cover of Rolling Stone, as well as on Newsweek and Time. Some of her bestselling albums included: Don't Cry Now, Hasten Down the Wind, Heart Like a Wheel, Prisoner in Disguise and Simple Dreams.
In the 1980s, Ronstadt appeared on Broadway in The Pirates of Penzance, and earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a musical, as well as a nomination at the Golden Globe Awards in 1983. She has had over 15 Grammy Award nominations, and won the lifetime achievement award in 2011 from the Latin Recording Academy. In 2013 she wrote her autobiography entitled: Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (1)
Kirkus Review
The renowned musician digs deep for her roots--familial, cultural, musical, and culinary. A native of Tucson, Arizona, with a family tree that extends to Germany by way of northern Mexico, Ronstadt celebrates the Sonoran Desert, which lies on both sides of the border. "It is amazing that a place so roasted by sunlight and heat can summon life in such variety and abundance," she writes in collaboration with journalist Downes. That variety includes people as well as plants and animals; to live in such a challenging environment, she adds, people must learn to cooperate. Small wonder that Ronstadt detests the border wall, "a scar and an abomination." Though she seldom rises to anger, the mood of anti-Hispanic racism that the previous occupant of the White House (never named in the text) stirred up moves her to righteous indignation: "It would be more honest if we called our country the United States of Who the Fuck Are You?" Ronstadt is more often inclined, though, to fond remembrances of her ancestral town of Banámichi, Sonora, and her Tucson hometown, with all the massive tortillas and lovely horses to be found there. Interwoven between stories of growing up in a musical, multicultural family are recipes that wouldn't be out of place in a collection by Rick Bayless or Diana Kennedy (both cited and lauded): A foodie could do worse than her family formula for albondigas. Ronstadt finds connections between past and present in Sonoran cuisine, writing, for instance, "Carne seca is a vivid reminder of the way history in the borderlands remains close to the surface--the seventeenth century is still as near as any Food City grocery in Tucson or tienda in Sonora." True enough, and lovers of Mexican food and desert places, to say nothing of fans of Ronstadt's music, will find much to cherish here. A lively, lovely exaltation of the dry, cactus-studded, indelible Sonoran Desert. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. xi |
| A Note from Linda on the Food | p. xxv |
| List of Recipes | p. xxvii |
| 1 Where the Water Turns | p. 1 |
| 2 Desert People | p. 35 |
| 3 Margarita's Letters | p. 59 |
| 4 Mi Pueblo | p. 71 |
| 5 La Frontera | p. 125 |
| 6 The Mission Garden | p. 145 |
| 7 Canelo Diary | p. 157 |
| 8 Desert Cattle | p. 165 |
| 9 El Futuro | p. 173 |
| 10 Coda: My Dream | p. 201 |
| A Note from Linda on the Music | p. 205 |
| Gratitude | p. 211 |
| Permissions | p. 215 |
| About the Authors | p. 217 |
| About the Photographer | p. 218 |