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Default Native American Cuisine

On Jan 29, 1:55 pm, Joseph Littleshoes > wrote:
> Nancy2 wrote:
>
> > On Jan 29, 10:36 am, wrote:

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> >>Is there a Native American Cuisine? What do you know aboutNative>>American food? Is Mexican food Native American?

>
> > Your website seems to think that "Southwestern, Mexican or Native
> > American" are all interchangable terms. Not.

>
> > What about the northern tribes? I doubt the Southwestern or Mexican
> > NAs have a tradition of cooking with wild rice or salmon.

>
> > N.

>
> Ferns cooked in bear fat? popcorn? corn on the cob? planked salmon? wild
> berries, snake meat, buffalo steaks, elk, moose, clams, oysters,
> lobsters, various stews made of local ingredients, smoked fish,
> dehydrated or air cured meats and veggies. My grandmother had a recipe
> using philberts or hazel nuts pounded to a paste to make a kind on flat,
> non rising bread.
>
> But bear in mind that for the most part, even with more settled tribes,
> the diet was a hunter gatherer diet, opportunistic and not as set as the
> diet of the early european invaders that died because they would not eat
> local produce.
>
> I was at a potlatch in alaska once where the foods were all traditional
> Native american regional foods, prepared as they had always been, and
> though i think the cooks took some liberties with hygiene and prep work,
> i was amazed at how good the foods were. My hillbilly relatives did not
> cook as well as the Native americans.
> --
> Joseph Littleshoes


Not all Native Americans were hunters and gatherers. Large areas were
under cultivation using irrigation and even plant breeding. In North
America by 1700 large Native planted areas that included corn, beans,
squash, peach and apples were in evidence.