Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness by Devon A. Mihesuah | Indigenous Studies - Paperbacks & Frybread Co.

Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness by Devon A. Mihesuah | Indigenous Studies

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Winner of the Gourmand International World Cookbook Award, Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens is back! Featuring an expanded array of tempting recipes of indigenous ingredients and practical advice about health, fitness, and becoming involved in the burgeoning indigenous food sovereignty movement, the acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon A. Mihesuah draws on the rich indigenous heritages of this continent to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life.

Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens features pointed discussions about the causes of the generally poor state of indigenous health today. Diminished health, Mihesuah contends, is a pervasive consequence of colonialism, but by advocating for political, social, economic, and environmental changes, traditional food systems and activities can be reclaimed and made relevant for a healthier lifestyle today.

New recipes feature pawpaw sorbet, dandelion salad, lima bean hummus, cranberry pie with cornmeal crust, grape dumplings, green chile and turkey posole, and blue corn pancakes, among other dishes. Savory, natural, and steeped in the Native traditions of this land, these recipes are sure to delight and satisfy.

This new edition is revised, updated, and contains new information, new chapters, and an extensive curriculum guide that includes objectives, resources, study questions, assignments, and activities for teachers, librarians, food sovereignty activists, and anyone wanting to know more about indigenous foodways.

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Barb R.

I really love this book as an educational tool in helping me to de-colonize my mindset/ethos (developed as a child in taking US history) of Native Americans, their land, diet, spiritulity and culture, and all the moving parts of wholistic living to bring healing of body, mind and spirit, for the human being and the land that is trod upon.