Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine (Jessica B. Harris) food history who continued the tradition of

who continued the tradition of working side by side with Jack and his descendants

Interspersed throughout are essays where J-C shares the full breadth of his culinary experience

the chef wanted to give an extra dimension to this gift by making it edible

fried smelts

Published for the benefit of the Ladies’ Home Missionary Society

Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine (Jessica B. Harris) food history who continued the tradition ofOne of our preeminent culinary historians, Dr. Jessica B. Harris has conducted decades of research throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, and Africa. In this telling of the origins of American food, though, she gets more personal. As heritage is history, she intertwines the larger sweeping past with stories and recipes from friends shes made over the yearspeople whose family dishes go back to the crucial era when Native peoples encountered Europeans