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The Joy of (Indigenous) Cooking: Exploring Loretta Barrett Oden’s Corn Dance

3:58 PM EST on November 16, 2023

With the Pioneer Woman and her disingenuous recipes looking down the barrel of Native pop-gun thanks to Killers of the Flower Moon, sadly, my own cooking adventures with my stroke-begotten hands were too much to try again…until I learned that the head chef of the First American Museum, Loretta Barrett Oden, put out a Native-themed cookbook.

I was reinvigorated to try my hand at cooking again.

Her newly published book is called Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine.