2026-04 Native Authored CookbooksUnpublished

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From an acclaimed Indigenous chef comes an extraordinary cookbook that weaves powerful storytelling with 125 intertribal recipes to heal our bodies and restore our foodways--featuring a foreword by bestselling novelist and fellow Oaklandian Tommy Orange. Chef Crystal Wahpepah has...

Next Level Chef winner Pyet De Spain celebrates her Mexican and Native American heritage in this collection of mouthwatering recipes, a vibrant fusion that ties us to the land and to one another. Star chef Pyet DeSpain rose to prominence as the first winner of Gordon Ramsey's Fox...

More than seventy delectable recipes that bring California's Indigenous cuisines into kitchens today. Finalist for the 2023 Glenn Goldman Award for Cooking, Chosen by the California Booksellers Alliance In this sumptuous cookbook, Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk) reimagines...

Nourish your body and mind through food with these 60 recipes celebrating Navajo culinary traditions. The Modern Navajo Kitchen​ takes you on an exhilarating journey for your taste buds. This beautifully photographed cookbook ties together traditional Navajo recipes...

Growing up in Shawnee, Oklahoma, among a host of grandmothers and aunties, Loretta Barrett Oden learned the lessons and lore of Potawatomi cooking, along with those of her father's family, whose ancestors arrived on the Mayflower. This rich cultural blend came to bear in the iconic restaurant she...

Winner of Two IACP Awards Food Issues & Matters * Health & Nutrition This enriching cookbook celebrates eight important plants Native Americans introduced to the rest of the world: corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and...

Celebrate modern Indigenous cuisine with this beautiful cookbook from the renowned Native foods educator and former chef of Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. This groundbreaking cookbook brings together modern interpretations of...

Explore the natural history, ecological contributions, and cultural significance of manoomin (wild rice), and savor complementary wild foods and local flavors with more than seventy-five inspired recipes, including favorites from over a dozen Indigenous cooks from various nations. ...

tawâw [pronounced ta-WOW]: Come in, you're welcome, there's room. Acclaimed chef Shane M. Chartrand's debut cookbook explores the reawakening of Indigenous cuisine and what it means to cook, eat, and share food in our homes and communities. Born to Cree parents and raised by a...

2018 James Beard Award Winner: Best American Cookbook Named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2017 by NPR, The Village Voice, Smithsonian Magazine, UPROXX, New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Mpls. St....

The Decolonizing Diet Project (DDP) Cookbook features a collection of Indigenous food recipes from the Great Lakes Region. These recipes were produced by the research subject participants, staff, and volunteers of the DDP. All of the ingredients in these recipes either existed in the Great Lakes...

 Local foods have garnered much attention in recent years, but the concept is hardly new: indigenous peoples have always made the most of nature's gifts. Their menus were truly the "original local," celebrated here in sixty home-tested recipes paired with profiles of tribal activists, food...

One of the very first cookbooks dedicated to Native North American food, mother and daughter team Dolly and Annie Watts have created a truly original recipe book. Recipes include such culinary exotica as oolichan, grouse, pemmican, bannock, elk, venison, seaweed and salmon bellies. It also features...