Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens
Subtitle: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780803252653
Subjects: Regional & Ethnic - General; Cooking / Wine
First sentence: In a recent commentary, physicians Neal D. Barnard and Derek M. Brown stated that the federal government advocates a diet that is unlike the traditional diets of Native peoples: "For Native Americans, current federal dietary guidelines promoting a meaty, chessy diet amounted to, perhaps inadvertently, the nutritional equivalent of smallpox-infected blankets."