Native Cooking - Acorns?

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i-Report: Ask the questions to the stuff you don't know, cause we're all just going to turn into ashes one day. Is it flym flam that the north american indigenous diet is mostly acorns? It's not all acorns, maybe acorns. Acorna has really high tannens, and so you have to leach it out. And there's a whole way of getting the tannons out so that your acorns taste like flour instead of like the bitterest thing on earth. Different acorns have different flavor profiles. But i have a friend that does indigenous food work in northern california, and she has a recipe for

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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