Gilbert Book Nature Tucson's culinary journey began thousands

Tucson's culinary journey began thousands of years ago

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Gilbert Book Nature Tucson's culinary journey began thousandsGilbert is one of the fastest growing communities in the country. There were only 500 residents when the town was incorporated in 1920. Since 1980, the population has doubled every five years. But how did this small desert community come to have such explosive growth in just over 30 years? Early pioneers began arriving in 1890, and in 1902, the Arizona Eastern Railway decided to build a rail line from Phoenix that went through Florence to the mining