If you stop at a roadside restaurant anywhere between North Dakota and Oklahoma, you might not immediately get a sense of culinary diversity. Many menus in rural and small-town middle America consist…
There are a few fry bread restaurants in Washington State. Obviously, native American cuisine goes much farther than just fry bread. But at the same time it is rather difficult to find any kind of authentic home cooked native American food that has not been incredibly bastardized over the last several hundred years.
(I am Lakota, I know a little bit of what I’m talking about)
I’m native from Central America. Many of our foods haven’t changed in a millennia. You can go grab tacos, beans, tamales and pozole and you’re basically eating like an Aztec or native. My grandma was full Mayan/Pipil, I still miss her cooking
I’ve never thought about it, but why aren’t there Native American restaurants the same way there are Mexican/Italian/Chinese/etc?
There are a few fry bread restaurants in Washington State. Obviously, native American cuisine goes much farther than just fry bread. But at the same time it is rather difficult to find any kind of authentic home cooked native American food that has not been incredibly bastardized over the last several hundred years.
(I am Lakota, I know a little bit of what I’m talking about)
This article goes into that. ;)
I’m native from Central America. Many of our foods haven’t changed in a millennia. You can go grab tacos, beans, tamales and pozole and you’re basically eating like an Aztec or native. My grandma was full Mayan/Pipil, I still miss her cooking