Where People Feast: An Indigenous People's Cookbook

We ate at Lilliget Restaurant before it closed so I was excited to find this book. The book certainly brought back memories of a wonderful meal at the restaurant. The pictures are very pretty. However, it would be very challenging to make many of the dishes as it requires native ingredients that are difficult to obtain in your typical supermarket - elk, venison, oolican (a kind of fish), fish eggs on kelp, etc. I will certainly try substitutes for these ingredients but the un-availability of the ingredients dampens my enthusiasm.

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Be aware that this is not a collection of traditional Native American recipes. These seem to have been devised for a modern restaurant as inspired by traditional ingredients. Still, the recipes are adventuresome, and the dishes certainly look appetizing.

Considerando il livello delle autrici, mi aspettavo un libro di livello più elevato. Le ricette sono molte, ma purtroppo è abbastanza difficile distinguere quelle che sono realmente attribuibili ai nativi rispetto a quelle addomesticate per il ristorante che le due autrici gestivano. Un altra grave pecca è la quasi totalità di assenza di immagini dedicate alla preparazione delle ricette e la lista degli ingredienti (non troverete unità di misura, ma cose del tipo "3/4 di tazza", "qualche cucchiaio", ecc). Con qualche ricerca in internet sono riuscito ad ottenere ben di più.

Very interesting collection with recipes we had been looking for over the yearsThe first thing was to find out about using juniper berries but upon reading we found many old time recipes we never expected to find

As the co-owner of Spirit Bear Coffee Company, an aboriginal coffee company. We encourage people to take a look at this great resource of recipes.

Dolly did a great job of speaking to her west coast experience with food.

awesome book!