Culinary Arts

"Food is life. Food is the key to vitality, goodness, happiness, and a strong body and mind." Compiled by five women living in Igloolik, Nunavut, this collection of recipes brings together healthy traditional country foods--like seal, Arctic char, and caribou--with store-bought produce to create delicious meals that can be an alternative to pre-packaged foods. With details on food safety and storage, as well as information on how to build a healthy, nutritious diet, this book will help even novice cooks feel empowered to begin cooking from scratch at home. With tasty recipes from land and sea--from Arctic char pizza to caribou chilli--this beautifully photographed cookbook provides wholesome, hearty meals that will become family favourites for years to come.

Traditional Native recipes featuring products from the land, sea and sky, symbols of an enduring cuisine that illustrate respect for the nurturing land, and acknowledgment of the spiritual power food can have in our lives.

tawâw [pronounced ta-WOW]: Come in, you're welcome, there's room.

While there were major variations from region to region and from season to season, in general, the traditional diets of Indigenous peoples of North America were remarkably healthy--high in protein and nutrients, low in salt, sugar and nearly without refined carbohydrates, featuring large and small game, waterfowl, eggs, fish and seafood, tubers, berries, tree roots, grasses, seeds and cultivated food crops. As a classically trained chef of First Nations heritage, David Wolfman has a passion for bringing these traditional food sources together with European cooking techniques.

Contemporary, imaginative interpretations of First Nations cuisine, including lighter, healthier, and more nutritious versions of traditional recipes.

2018 James Beard Award Winner;Best American Cookbook introduction to modern indigenous cuisine of the Dakota and Minnesota territories

Practical primer on natural foods not only provides recipes for varied Native American dishes but also describes uses of ceremonial, medicinal, and sacred plants.