Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0870207717 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 124 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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With his rare perspective as a Native anthropologist and artist, he tells a poignant personal story in this unique book.. He connects each food—beaver, trout, blackberry, wild rice, maple sugar, partridge—with colorful individuals who taught him Indigenous values. As Weso grew up, his uncles taught him to hunt bear, deer, squirrels, raccoons, and even skunks for the daily larder. Weso’s grandmother Jennie "made fire" each morning in a wood-burning stove, and oversaw huge breakfasts of wild game, fish, and fruit pies. In this food memoir, named for
He is the author of many articles, personal essays, and a biography of Langston Hughes with coauthor Denise Low. He is an artist with paintings in collections throughout the Kansas City area, and he has had solo and group shows at the Hutchinson Arts Center and other venues.. He is a speaker for the Kansas Humanities Council library program, Talk About Literature in Kansas and copublisher of Mammoth Publications. Weso holds a master’s degree in Indigenous Studies from the University of Kansas, and has taught at the college level for the last fifteen years. About the A
Laura Wolf said The Review This is such a great book! I enjoyed learning about the history of. The SynopsisThomas Pecore Weso shows a cook’s journey through Wisconsin’s woods. He takes each food—beaver, trout, fruit, wild rice, and shows us who taught him these values. Cooks will learn from the recipes, as historians hear firsthand stories about reservation life during the mid-twentieth century.The ReviewThis is such a great book! I enjoyed learning about the history of the land and the tribe. I haven't tried any of the recipes yet, but I'm sur. The best of history! Jan menominee-indians-of-wisconsin, recipes, historical-research, history-and-cultureA family history, a Wisconsin tribal history of the Menominee, a limited personal history, a food history, this book is all of these things and more. The recipes are gleaned from family, tribal, and other cookbooks. There are recipes with wild rice, berries, wild game, fishes, corn, maple syrup, greens, garden meals, and preserving foods. It is comfortably written and well researched, with. Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir by Thomas Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir by Thomas Pecore Weso is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late August.Adored it! Much like Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good (though with midwestern Native food and culture, instead of Italian and potluck-style comfort food), this book focuses on ingredient procurement alongside its recipes and lovingly rendered family stories and daily/annual celebrations.
Weso holds a master’s degree in Indigenous Studies from the University of Kansas, and has taught at the college level for the last fifteen years. He is the author of many articles, personal essays, and a biography of Langston Hughes with coauthor Denise Low. He is an artist with paintings in collections throughout the Kansas City area, and he has had solo and group shows at the Hutchinson Arts Center and other venues.. He is a speaker for the