[Sca-cooks] Food safe firewood

[Elaine Koogler]

Mark Hendershott wrote:
> At 10:43 AM 4/6/2006, you wrote:
>
> Cooking salmon tacked to a red cedar (Western Red Cedar, not a true 
> cedar) board over a fire is a PNW thing.  I've seen cedar boards w/ 
> instructions in cookware shops.  It is said, I don't know with what 
> authority, that this is the Indian way.
>
> Simon Sinneghe
> Briaroak, Summits, An Tir
>
Actually, I believe that the Native Americans on the East Coast 
practiced cooking fish on a wooden plank as well...and I seem to 
remember it being cedar, but I'd have to check.  In fact, in Virginia, 
even today, one of the major Spring celebrations is a shad 
planking...often done as a political "do". 

Kiri