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Title

A Native American feast / by Lucille Recht Penner ; with illustrations selected by the author.

Author

Penner, Lucille Recht.

Publication

New York : Macmillan ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994.

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Description

xxv, 99 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The book has a wealth of information on Native American cooking techniques, manners, and customs connected with food. Tribes worked hard to find their food and prepared their meals in many interesting ways.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Food
• Indian cooking
• Indians of North America > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

Juvenile works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. Hickory nut soup ; Green succotash ; Pueblo peach crisp -- Discovering America -- A great mystery. Roasted corn on the cob ; Blue pinole ; Thumbprint bread (Kolatquvil) ; Hopi blue marbles ; Wagmiza Wasna -- Treasure. Cherokee bean balls ; Apache pumpkin with sunflower seeds ; Popped wild rice ; Zuni green chili stew -- The hunt. Broiled buffalo steaks ; Venison and hominy stew -- Feast and famine. Mouse cache soup ; Iroquois strawberry drink ; Mushrooms cooked in oil -- Berries, flowers, and bear fat. Fried squash blossoms ; Pemmican cakes ; Maple sugar drink ; Wild grape dumplings ; Inuit ice cream ; Wojapi -- Lighting the fire. Broiled salmon steaks with juniper berries ; Boiled rabbit with corn dumplings ; Baked beans with maple sugar -- A basketful of water. Pumpkin shell soup -- Good manners -- Thanksgiving.

ISBN

0027709027

LCCN

^^^94010336^/AC

OCLC

• 39274914
• SCSB-13306303

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library