2020 Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner of the Gourmand International World Cookbook Award, Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens is back! Featuring an expanded array of tempting recipes of indigenous ingredients and practical advice about health, fitness, and becoming involved in the burgeoning indigenous food sovereignty movement, the acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon A. Mihesuah draws on the rich indigenous heritages of this continent to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life. Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens features pointed discussions about the causes of the generally poor state of indigenous health today. Diminished health, Mihesuah contends, is a pervasive consequence of colonialism, but by advocating for political, social, economic, and environmental changes, traditional food systems and activities can be reclaimed and made relevant for a healthier lifestyle today. New recipes feature pawpaw sorbet, dandelion salad, lima bean hummus, cranberry pie with cornmeal crust, grape dumplings, green chile and turkey posole, and blue corn pancakes, among other dishes. Savory, natural, and steeped in the Native traditions of this land, these recipes are sure to delight and satisfy. This new edition is revised, updated, and contains new information, new chapters, and an extensive curriculum guide that includes objectives, resources, study questions, assignments, and activities for teachers, librarians, food sovereignty activists, and anyone wanting to know more about indigenous foodways.
Devon A. Mihesuah is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor at the University of Kansas. She is the author of numerous award-winning books, including Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero, and is the coeditor of Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health.
List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface to the Revised Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Traditional Diets and Activities Case Study 1: The Five Tribes 2. The State of Indigenous Health Case Study 2: Changing Diets and Health in Indian Territory 3. Challenges to Recovering Health Case Study 3: Frybread 4. What Are You Ingesting? 5. Calories, Exercise, and Recovering Fitness 6. Changing What We Eat 7. Importance of Backyard Gardens Curriculum Guide Recipes Appetizers Guacamole Dip Lima Bean Hummus Summer Salsa Salads, Soups, and Stews Dandelion Salad Poke Salat Vegetable, Turkey, and Game Stocks Butternut Squash Soup Dakota Waskuya (Dakota Dried Sweet Corn Soup) Gazpacho Elk Stew Choctaw Stew Osage Strip Meat Soup (Ta-ni') Posole Main Dishes Meat and Vegetable Kabobs Venison Steaks Good for Your Heart Fried Moose Meat Venison Burgers Salmon Venison Meatloaf Osage Pounded Meat (Ta'-pshe) Corn Crust Pizza Enchiladas Vegetables and Side Dishes Pumpkins Tepary Bean-Prickly Pear Casserole Comanche Ata-Kwasa Baked New Potatoes Vegetable SautE Sweet Potatoes Mamaw Helton's Creamed Corn Osage Yonkopin (Tse'-wa-the), Water Chinkapin Roots and Seeds Chahta Tanfula Pashofa Pinto Beans Avocados Prickly Pear Paddles Grilled Corn on the Cob LuiseNo Weewish Wild Onions Zucchini Canoes Stuffed Bell Peppers Poblano Peppers Stuffed with Wild Rice, Cranberries, or Vegetables Mashed Potatoes with Corn Gravy Grits Spaghetti Squash Breads Banaha Osage Persimmon Cakes (Wah-zha'-zhe wa-dsiu'-e Cta-in'-ge) Corn, Bean, and Turkey Bread Blue Corn Pancakes Drinks and Desserts Abuske Pawpaw Sorbet Grape Dumplings No Wheat, Butter, Eggs, or Sugar Cookies Mamaw Helton's Stewed Fruit Wojapi Cranberry Pie with Cornmeal Crust Preserving Food Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Pemmican Appendix A: Precontact Foods of the Western Hemisphere Appendix B: Diet Chart for One Week Notes Index
"The book brims with information. . . . This well-researched book will be most useful to launch discussions or perhaps to read chapter by chapter."-Publishers Weekly "Educators, librarians, food sovereignty activists, culinary arts students, and those interested in Native American food history and sovereignty will find that this book is an excellent resource."-Elise Krohn, Tribal College Journal "The political goal of empowerment through dietary change is certainly worthy and most likely to be translated into action when generated from within by such a prominent member of a tribal nation as Devon Mihesuah."-Linda Murray Berzok, Gastronomica
