How Do You Find Out About Native Cooking?

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i'm living on the blackfeet reservation, so i have cultural connections here. Sometimes i get information just by reaching out to native chefs and asking questions. If you're talking with plant folks, they might say, oh, yes, this plant is edible. Great. Now you harvest it. You know, chemists roots, for example, camis bulbs are edible. What are these o id never heard of them? But they are friends in the asparagus family. I've reached out to a navajo chef friend of mine when asking about blue corn mush recipe,. Like, how much wood ash, how much juniper ash are you actually supposed to add to how much water?

Shoving elk into a dorm room freezer. The wildest tasting rice. Flower bulbs, acorn whoopie pies, frybread debates, mushroom foraging tips, corn magic, puffball mythology, decolonized diets, squash lasagna, bison harvests, small worlds, Instapots and – most importantly – food sovereignty with the WONDERFUL Indigikitchen cooking show host, environmental scientist Mariah Gladstone, who reminds us all that native foods aren’t a part of a past, but an essential and exciting aspect of the future.

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Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary

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