by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 6, 2022 | American Indian diet, Indian diet, Indian gardens, Indigenous cuisine, Kimmerer, Lakota, salmon, Squanto
It struck me first in the wake of the Vietnam War, when hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, Laotian, Thai, and Cambodian refugees arrived in America—and began opening restaurants. Even then I thought back to small Mexican restaurants in 1950s Southern California, and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 6, 2013 | fur trade, history of corn, Indian gardens, Iroquis farm, maise, mound builders, Pacific Northwest Indians, pre-columbian agriculture, spalding, whitman
Ok, I should have thought this whole thing through before launching food travel theories. Josephy reminded us years ago, in Indian Heritage of America, 1492 and other places, that about half of present world food crops originated in the Western hemisphere: corn,...
