This book celebrates the amazing diversity of the original foods of North, Central, and South America. Foods of the Americas highlights indigenous ingredients, traditional recipes, and contemporary recipes with ancient roots. Includes 140 modern recipes representing tribes and communities from all regions of the Americas.

Modern Indigenous cuisine from the renowned Native foods educator and former chef of Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian From Freddie Bitsoie, the former executive chef at Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, and James Beard Award–winning author James O. Fraioli, New Native Kitchen is a celebration of Indigenous cuisine. Accompanied by original artwork by Gabriella Trujillo and offering delicious dishes like Cherrystone Clam Soup from the Northeastern Wampanoag and Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin from the Pueblo peoples, Bitsoie showcases the variety of flavor and culinary history on offer from coast to coast, providing modern interpretations of 100 recipes that have long fed this country. Recipes like Chocolate Bison Chili, Prickly Pear Sweet Pork Chops, and Sumac Seared Trout with Onion and Bacon Sauce combine the old with the new, holding fast to traditions while also experimenting with modern methods. In this essential cookbook, Bitsoie shares his expertise and culinary insights into Native American cooking and suggests new approaches for every home cook. With recipes as varied as the peoples that inspired them, New Native Kitchen celebrates the Indigenous heritage of American cuisine.

2018 James Beard Award Winner: Best American Cookbook Named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2017 by NPR, The Village Voice, Smithsonian Magazine, UPROXX, New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Mpls. St. PaulMagazine and others Here is real food—our indigenous American fruits and vegetables, the wild and foraged ingredients, game and fish. Locally sourced, seasonal, “clean” ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking are nothing new to Sean Sherman, the Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef. In his breakout book, The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, Sherman shares his approach to creating boldly seasoned foods that are vibrant, healthful, at once elegant and easy. Sherman dispels outdated notions of Native American fare—no fry bread or Indian tacos here—and no European staples such as wheat flour, dairy products, sugar, and domestic pork and beef. The Sioux Chef’s healthful plates embrace venison and rabbit, river and lake trout, duck and quail, wild turkey, blueberries, sage, sumac, timpsula or wild turnip, plums, purslane, and abundant wildflowers. Contemporary and authentic, his dishes feature cedar braised bison, griddled wild rice cakes, amaranth crackers with smoked white bean paste, three sisters salad, deviled duck eggs, smoked turkey soup, dried meats, roasted corn sorbet, and hazelnut–maple bites. The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen is a rich education and a delectable introduction to modern indigenous cuisine of the Dakota and Minnesota territories, with a vision and approach to food that travels well beyond those borders.

Milkweed soup, bannock, sofkee, fried yucca petals, spicewood tea and blue camas bulbs. These are just a few of the dishes north America's indigenous peoples have eaten over decades and centuries. Author Tim Murphy has collected a small sampling of these recipes for this book. Represented in this book are recipes from Apache, Inuit, Ojibwa, Odawa, Choctaw, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Tlingit, Metis, Navajo, Nez Perce, Yupik, Winnebago, Ojibwe, Coquille, Mandan, Chinook, Oneida, Hopi, Dakota, Kickapoo, Cheyenne, Yurok, Cree, Crow, Aleut, Seneca, Hidatsa, Ho Chunk, Maliseet, Shawnee, Grande Ronde, Seminole, Passamaquoddy, Iroquois, Pueblo, Ute, Wyandot, Mohawk and Sioux

Presenting authentic Native American cuisine, award-winning chef Beverly Cox presents a delicious array of wholesome recipes. With an updated resources listing, this book is key for anyone wishing to work with ingredients native to the land.

Have you studied with interest the original inhabitants of what is now the United States of America? Are you interested in the dishes these first people of the nation have passed down? Would you like to recreate these authentic Native American recipes at home? Unless you grew up with a family who is Native American, you might only think about their foods as the dishes served around Thanksgiving time, like turkey, sweet potatoes and corn. If you like spicier foods, your mind may wander to their Southwestern fare, which includes fried beans, tortillas and chili peppers. These modern recipes trace their roots back to Native Americans, although most have been customized to a degree for the different types of taste palettes found in America today. The types of ingredients you'll be using in your recipes depend on those found commonly in the diverse dishes of native American culture. These dishes come from many locations, from the warm areas of Arizona and New Mexico to the coldest reaches in northern Alaska. This cookbook includes dishes from all over the area once inhabited by the original residents of America. The ingredients grew naturally in various areas, many years back. Read on, and learn to make dishes that harken back to the history of the country...