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Alma Hogan Snell - A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines - 9780803293533 - V9780803293533
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A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines

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Description for A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines Paperback. A collection of Crow recipes, age-old plant medicines and healing remedies. This work imparts the lore of ages along with the traditional Crow philosophy of healing and detailed practical advice for finding and harvesting plants. Editor(s): Castle, Lisa. Series: At Table. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illus., map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 270.

“A rich repository of recipes, folklore and advice for living and healing.”Lively Times

Drawing on the knowledge and wisdom of countless generations of Crow Indian women, the well-known speaker and teacher Alma Hogan Snell presents an indispensable guide to the traditional lore, culinary uses, and healing properties of native foods. 

A Taste of Heritage imparts the lore of ages along with the traditional Crow philosophy of healing and detailed practical advice for finding and harvesting plants: from the key to creating irresistible dishes of cattails and dandelions, salsify and Juneberries, antelope meat and buffalo hooves, to the secret of using plants to ... Read more

A partial list of recipes: 
Wild Bitterroot Sauce
Wild Carrot Pudding
Cattail Biscuits
Dandelion Soup
Salsify Oyster Stew
Balapia (Berry Pudding)
Juneberry Pie
Chokecherry Cake
Wild Mint Tea
Bitterberry Lemonade
Wheel Bread
Boiled Hooves
Bill’s Mother’s Antelope Roast
Stuffed Trout
Elk Roast
Stuffed Eggs
Old-Time Moose Roast
Wild Turnip Porridge
Wild Turnip Bread
Fresh Wild Salad
Buffalo Cattail Stew
Ground Tomato Salad
Gooseberry Pudding
Bearberry Butter
Spicy Dried Plum Cake
Buffaloberry Jelly

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
At Table
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803293533
SKU
V9780803293533
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Alma Hogan Snell
Alma Hogan Snell (1923–2008) is the granddaughter of the famed Crow medicine woman Pretty Shield, on whose life the classic Pretty-shield is based. She is the author of Grandmother’s Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life, available in a Bison Books edition.  Lisa Castle is a graduate student in biology at the University of Kansas.  Kelly Kindscher is an associate scientist at the ... Read more

Reviews for A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines
“A rich repository of recipes, folklore and advice for living and healing.”—Lively Times "This charming work is a contribution to ethnobotany and foodways in the context of contemporary Crow culture, with its mixture of tradition and assimilation, from the perspective of one deeply situated tradition bearer."—Dana Kramer-Rolls, Western Folklore

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