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Native American Culinary Traditions Come Full Circle

Liz Grossman

Identifying Native American cuisines can be confusing from the start. So many of the traditions are based on the regions where tribes and nations existed before the U.S. government pushed them onto reservations and handed them rations of white flour, lard and sugar to substitute for the grains and game meat that had comprised their diets for generations. But chefs like Nephi Craig, Sean Sherman and Lois Ellen Frank have...