Tag: Pemmican

Pemmican, and Other Sundry Treats from Jas. Townsend

July 13, 2016

Of the three  influences on early American cooking – Native American, European, and African – Native Americans deserve far more credit, for one thing, than just for their expertise on corn.  Thanks to that knowledge, Europeans and others became rather adept at manipulating corn and cornmeal, and other ingredients, in order to stay alive in the New … More Pemmican, and Other Sundry Treats from Jas. Townsend

It’s Superfruit! It’s an American Thang! It’s The Blueberry!

August 26, 2008

Call it what you may —  whortleberry, bilberry, huckleberry, starberry, hurtleberry, buckleberry, or blaeberry. A card-carrying member of the Vaccinium family, with all its cousins. Whatever the Native Americans or the early American settlers called blueberries, today the health media calls them Superfruit. Full of vitamin C and vitamin K, scientists are just now confirming … More It’s Superfruit! It’s an American Thang! It’s The Blueberry!