Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine (Jessica B. Harris) food history Published for the benefit of

Published for the benefit of the Ladies’ Home Missionary Society

fried smelts

Empaguetadas

conservationists and nutritionists around themes such as re-wilding

Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine (Jessica B. Harris) food history Published for the benefit ofOne of our preeminent culinary historians, Dr. Jessica B. Harris has conducted decades of research throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, and Africa. In this telling of the origins of American food, though, she gets more personal. As heritage is history, she intertwines the larger sweeping past with stories and recipes from friends shes made over the yearspeople whose family dishes go back to the crucial era when Native peoples encountered Europeans