[Sca-cooks] pre-Columbian foods

[UlfR]

Christine Seelye-King <kingstaste at mindspring.com> [2003.11.02] wrote:

> We are thinking foods that were here when the Westerners got to
> land.  

If you are looking for actual pre-contact food you may want to take a
look at The Billetin of Primitive Technology
(http://www.primitive.org/backissues.htm). There have been several
articles about food, and one issue (#19, still available according to
their web-site) focussed on the subject. This is where you'll find
people who are at least as fanatic about authenticity as we are here,
but with a plaeolithic focus (done "right" a stone age tool has to be made
using stone age tools).

Considering the season acorns come to mind. Properly leached -- hull¸
grind, rinse, rinse, rinse... -- they are quite good.

Also the fall hunt would have been going on (last chance for migratory
birds, etc).

> also been talking about a buffalo roast, as Ted Turner has opened his
> "Montana Grille" right across the street from where my lord works, and is
> also supplying buffalo to the local Farmer's Market now.  (I know, that is
> really a prarie food and not something the folks just landing in coastal
> areas would have had, but Uncle Ted provides, so we take advantage of
> that...)

There was a eastern forrest buffalo, which might reasonably have been
available to at least some of the groups along the east coast. Pit
cooked buffalo (chunk of, not the whole thing)...

UlfR

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