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Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America - Hardcover cover

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Turtle Island

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Sean Sherman, Kate Nelson & Kristin Donnelly · Updated August 2026

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Why it earned a place

An expansive regional account of Indigenous foodways across North America, pairing more than one hundred ancestral and contemporary recipes with the communities, landscapes, producers, and histories that sustain them.

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Cooks, food historians, educators, and readers seeking a deeper understanding of Indigenous ingredients, seasonal practice, and food sovereignty
Material / format
Hardcover · 416 pages · ISBN 9780593579237
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This is a broad regional work; individual nations and communities hold distinct living traditions that should not be treated as interchangeable
Price · USD · Hardcover$45.00
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Food traditions told through place, history, and living practice.

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