Salish Country Cookbook: Traditional Foods and Medicines from the Pacific Northwest

Salish Country Cookbook is a product of many years of research and learning from Salish food preparers and gatherers. Growing up eating bear candy (salmon berry sprouts) and gathering berries, clams, oysters, crab, and enjoying my father’s and brothers’ hunted deer, bear, elk, duck, and beaver made this book necessary. It is published with the hope that as more Salish people reclaim ancient food preparation methods and turn them into modern recipes, the land and sea will once again be treated properly and no longer as the place to dump waste. We then will see and understand that the human connection to the land is vital for our health in body, mind and soul. Human beings cannot long survive if the land and the sea are together made into places for dumping toxins, industrial waste, nuclear waste, and medicinal waste. Salish Country Cookbook is a celebration of Salish knowledge with ancient roots in the land and the sea. We have recited some old recipes and prepared ancient foods in modern ways. The Salish cook will have the benefit of life giving food and enriched knowledge. Those of us who prepared this book wish you.