Spirit of the Harvest

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Richard Hetzler

Since the 2004 opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., the museum’s Mitsitam Cafe (mitsitam means "let’s eat" in the Piscataway and Delaware languages) enhances the museum experience by providing visitors the opportunity to enjoy indigenous cuisines of the Americas. Drawing upon tribal culinary traditions from five regions—Northern Woodlands, Great Plains, North Pacific Coast, Mesoamerica, and South America—the cafe’s offerings feature staples that were once unknown in the rest of the world. The book contains 90 easy-to-follow, home-tested recipes. The foods -- appetizers, soups, salads, main courses, tacos, side dishes, sauces and salsas, breads, desserts and drinks -- range from more basic and traditional (Fry Bread) to more fanciful (Green Papaya and Sea Bass with Amarillo Vinaigrette). While Chef Hetzler doesn't contribute any other text, each recipe is preceded with notes (by the book's project editor Sally Barrows) that are quite entertaining and instructive -- even poignant. Replete with beautiful photographs of the finished dishes as well as approximately 800,000 objects and archival photographs from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, representing over 10,000 years of history from more than 1,000 indigenous cultures of the Americas. "The Mitsitam Cafe Cookbook" won "Best in the World" Cookbook for the "Best Local Cuisine" category of 2010 from Gourmand at the Paris Cookbook Fair. Further, the Cafe is the Winner of the 2012 "Best Casual Dining Restaurant" by RAMW, Zagat Rated and Featured in Gluten Free Dining.

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Elizabeth Germaine & Ann L. Burckhardt

An introduction to the cooking of Australia, featuring such recipes as egg and bacon pie, Anzac biscuits, pumpkin soup, and glazed kiwi tart. Also includes information on the history, geography, customs and people of the "land down under."

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Sidney Saylor Farr

Sydney Saylor Farr is a woman who knows Appalachia well. Born on Stoney Fork in southeastern Kentucky, she has lived much of her life close to the mountains, among people whose roots are deep in the soil and who pass on to their children a love for the land, a strong sense of belonging and of place. Mountain food and how it is cooked is very much a part of this sense of place. Ask any displaced Appalachians what they miss most and they will probably talk about soup beans, country ham, and homemade buscuits. They may also remember the kitchens at home, the warmth from the wood-burning stove.

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Roland Merullo

The author traces his 2007 summer near the shore of Italy's Lake Como, where he played on several northern-region courses of distinction, shared lavish meals with his family, and interacted with a host of eccentric locals.