Known for their cooking skills, some of the Tahltan families share their secrets in this first volume of a unique series. A Tahltan Cookbook: Volume One includes recipes for game and information on preparing moose, deer and bear from this intriguing group of First Nations peoples.

This richly descriptive book includes recipes and folklore about the preparation of food by Southwest Indians. A best selling favorite which delights the palate and the eye, this cookbook ventures beyond mere recipes into the hearts and souls of the Pueblo and Navajo Indians. In these native cultures, the growth of food and its preparation are intimately tied to religious ceremony.

A year of eating locally results in a gastronomical journey through prairie food festivals, local food traditions and the infamous community dinners. A humorous, light-hearted chronicle of the writer’s love affair with good food, prairie traditions and flavours from her childhood with recipes peppered throughout.

Fuelled by nostalgia and her taste buds, she set out to rediscover the flavours of her childhood and the flavours of natural, local, farm-fresh prairie food. When she vowed to serve only locally produced food at her own dinner table for one year, the pursuit took on a life of its own.

Beautiful photographs enhance Amy Jo's mouth-watering menus, recipes and her adventures in the pursuit of home grown prairie food.

It is not about miles, but a way of life. It is our community, our history and an opportunity to find ourselves in the food we eat.

Prairie Feast is a love story, a celebration of every good thing this bountiful land has to offer. It will inspire all conscious consumers to follow their taste buds home for dinner.