Over 31 recipes. Includes techniques for preparing beans and vegetables and for roasting and drying a variety of chiles.

Aboriginal and modern recipes from many SW tribes. Contains two excellent recipes for Navajo Fry Bread.

Abstract: A collection of 39 recipes contributed by 5 Indian tribes of the American Southwest features staple foods traditionally grown in Indian village gardens. These native foods include corn, squash, pinto beans, red and green chilis, pumpkin, and wild desert plants, e.g., prickly pear, mesquite, tepary, squawberry, and cholla. Many recipes of the Apache, Papago, Pima, Pueblo, and Navajo originated before contact was made with Spanish culture; others include foods introduced with colonization. Most ingredients found in these recipes, however, are available in local supermarkets and grocery stores. (nm).

This handy cookbook is an enjoyable and informative guide to the rich culinary traditions of the American Indians of the Southwest. Featured are 150 authentic fruit, grain, and vegetable recipes?foods that have been prepared by generations of Apaches, Zunis, Navajos, Havasupais, Yavapais, Pimas, and Pueblos. These tasty, unique dishes include mesquite pudding, Navajo blue bread, hominy, cherry corn bread, and yucca hash. American Indian Cooking also boasts wonderfully detailed illustrations of dozens of edible wild plants and essential information on their history, use, and importance. Many of these plants can be obtained by mail; a list of mail-order sources in the back of the book allows everyone to sample and savor these distinctive, natural recipes.

Around the world, indigenous peoples are returning to traditional foods produced by traditional methods of subsistence. The goal of controlling their own food systems, known as food sovereignty, is to reestablish healthy lifeways to combat contemporary diseases such as diabetes and obesity. This is the first book to focus on the dietary practices of the Navajos, from the earliest known times into the present, and relate them to the Navajo Nation’s participation in the global food sovereignty movement. It documents the time-honored foods and recipes of a Navajo woman over almost a century, from the days when Navajos gathered or hunted almost everything they ate to a time when their diet was dominated by highly processed foods.

Includes recipes and food lore of both Navajo and Pueblo Indian cultures