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Genre/Form: | Cookbooks |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Heid E Erdrich |
ISBN: | 9780873518949 0873518942 |
OCLC Number: | 847837226 |
Awards: | Short-listed for Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (Nonfiction) 2013 |
Description: | 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Foods of this earth -- Manoomin-psin-wild rice -- Fish and game -- Gathering -- Vegetables and beans -- Mandaamin-corn -- Maple and berries -- Herbs and tea -- Good seeds. |
Responsibility: | Heid E. Erdrich. |
Abstract:
Local foods have garnered much attention in recent years, but the concept is hardly new: indigenous peoples have always made the most of nature's gifts. Their menus were truly the "original local," celebrated here in sixty home-tested recipes paired with profiles of tribal activists, food researchers, families, and chefs. A chapter on wild rice makes clear the crucial role manoomin plays in cultural and economic survival. A look at freshwater fish is concerned with shifts in climate and threats to water purity as it reveals the deep relationship between Ojibwe people and indigenous fish species such as Ginoozhii, the Muskie, Ogaa, the Walleye, and Adikamig, Whitefish. Health concerns have encouraged Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota cooks to return to, and revise, recipes for bison, venison, and wild game. Sections on vegetables and beans, herbs and tea, and maple and berries offer insight from a broad representation of regional tribes, including Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Potawatomi, and Mandan gardeners and harvesters. The innovative recipes collected here -- from Ramp Kimchi to Three Sisters Salsa, from Manoomin Lasagna to Venison Mole Chili -- will inspire home cooks not only to make better use of the foods all around them but also to honor the storied heritage they represent.
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