you've definitely had grits — and this incredibly popular food, that's become synonymous with Southerners, actually originated with Eastern Native American tribes. Made from ground corn ...

Corn was ground into meal or grits and used in everything from porridges to bread. Even the method of cooking beans with pork fat, a Southern staple, can be traced back to Native American traditions.

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. And traditional Native ...

Blue corn gnocchi and frybread tacos are ... cooks are defining what foods should be included in New Native American Cuisine,” writes food historian, chef, and James Beard Award-winning cookbook ...

The corn stock becomes a trellis for the beans ... Here to talk more about the history of Native American food systems is DoctorValarie Blue Bird Jernigan. Doctor Jernigan, can you talk about ...

"And introducing the world to Native American food." West is a member of the Cheyenne ... that ingredients found in local grocery stores like corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers ...