Cooking with Indigenous ingredients this Thanksgiving.
Frybread is a traditional Native American flatbread. The Tiwa Kitchen Restaurant & Bakery in Taos Pueblo, N.M., in sells prepackaged blue corn frybread mix in its online store.
Step 1 – Learn about Thanksgiving's history from Native American perspectives and amplify/listen to Indigenous voices. We're not suggesting every technique or ingredient must be thoroughly researched or native to this particular land, but it is possible to highlight more First Foods and Indigenous foodways – and honor traditional Native food principles. Here are a few tenets to inform your practice:* Wild and organic foods promote health – of people and Earth.* Gather, share, and be generous.That's only the beginning, but we're here to help you get started on the food stuff.
Other Indigenous ingredients run the gamut, depending on the area. Native American ingredients in New England, home of those hotly contested 16th-century meals, might include wild blueberries, clams, maple syrup, and fiddlehead ferns – what a lovely dish that could inspire. But down here in the Southwest, it's all about the hearty hot-weather crops and the creatures that call this area home.
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