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Choctaw Author’s American Indian Health and Fitness
Choctaw Author's American Indian Health and Fitness Book Wins
Gourmand World Cookbook Award
www.prweb.com/releases/200616/2/prweb342376.htm
American Indian author Devon Mihesuah's newest book, Recovering Our
Ancestors' Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness,
has won the Special Award of the Jury from the Gourmand World
Cookbook Awards. The award will be presented in May, 2006 in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
Baldwin City, KS (PRWEB) February 6, 2006 -- American Indian author
Devon Mihesuah's newest book, Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens:
Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness has won the Special
Award of the Jury from the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and is
finalist for "Best in the World" along with fellow Americans Maya
Angelou and Martha Stewart.
The award will be presented in May, 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
This is the 10th year of the Gourmand Awards, based out of Barcelona
Spain. There were 6000 entries this year from 65 countries all vying
for "Best in the World" among 34 cookbook categories.
Devon Mihesuah is Oklahoma Choctaw and the Cora Lee Beers Price
Teaching Professor in International Cultural Understanding in the
Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas.
She is author of a dozen award-winning scholarly works and fiction
novels that deal with American Indian empowerment and decolonization.
She also serves as Editor of the international journal of indigenous
studies, the American Indian Quarterly.
Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens contains an exercise advice
section, strategies for healthy eating, gardening tips and a
collection of indigenous recipes from her U.S. and Canadian
colleagues, including Summer Salsa, Dakota Waskuya Soup, Osage
Pounded Meat, Chickasaw Pashofa, Elk Steak, Choctaw Banaha, Comanche
Ata-Kwasa, and Luiseno Weewish.
The book also consists of clear and pointed discussions about the
generally poor state of indigenous health today and how and why many
Natives have become separated from their traditional diets, sports,
gardening, and other activities that kept them physically and
mentally healthy.
"High incidences of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and
related physical problems among Indigenous peoples are pervasive
consequences of colonialism," Mihesuah says. "Natives once gathered,
hunted and cultivated foods that kept them physically strong. Now,
many Natives across the Americas are sedentary and have lost touch
with their traditional tribal knowledge, including methods of
cultivating, preparing and preserving foods. Taking charge of our
health by boycotting the greasy, fatty, sugary and salty foods that
are killing us in favor of the nutrient-rich and unprocessed
indigenous foods of this hemisphere is greatly empowering."
"We can only do so much to combat racism and prejudice," Mihesuah
notes, "but we can control what we eat, what we feed our families and
how much we move around. We must take responsibility for our health
and for the well-being of our children. In so doing, we pass on a
legacy of self-respect and tribal strength to future generations."
Among the objectives of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards are to
help readers find the best out of the 24,000 food and wine books
produced every year from across the world.
Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens can be purchased through University
of Nebraska Press at 402-472-2759 or
unp.unl.edu/bookinfo/4926.html
Choctaw Author's American Indian Health and Fitness Book Wins
Gourmand World Cookbook Award
www.prweb.com/releases/200616/2/prweb342376.htm
American Indian author Devon Mihesuah's newest book, Recovering Our
Ancestors' Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness,
has won the Special Award of the Jury from the Gourmand World
Cookbook Awards. The award will be presented in May, 2006 in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
Baldwin City, KS (PRWEB) February 6, 2006 -- American Indian author
Devon Mihesuah's newest book, Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens:
Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness has won the Special
Award of the Jury from the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and is
finalist for "Best in the World" along with fellow Americans Maya
Angelou and Martha Stewart.
The award will be presented in May, 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
This is the 10th year of the Gourmand Awards, based out of Barcelona
Spain. There were 6000 entries this year from 65 countries all vying
for "Best in the World" among 34 cookbook categories.
Devon Mihesuah is Oklahoma Choctaw and the Cora Lee Beers Price
Teaching Professor in International Cultural Understanding in the
Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas.
She is author of a dozen award-winning scholarly works and fiction
novels that deal with American Indian empowerment and decolonization.
She also serves as Editor of the international journal of indigenous
studies, the American Indian Quarterly.
Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens contains an exercise advice
section, strategies for healthy eating, gardening tips and a
collection of indigenous recipes from her U.S. and Canadian
colleagues, including Summer Salsa, Dakota Waskuya Soup, Osage
Pounded Meat, Chickasaw Pashofa, Elk Steak, Choctaw Banaha, Comanche
Ata-Kwasa, and Luiseno Weewish.
The book also consists of clear and pointed discussions about the
generally poor state of indigenous health today and how and why many
Natives have become separated from their traditional diets, sports,
gardening, and other activities that kept them physically and
mentally healthy.
"High incidences of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and
related physical problems among Indigenous peoples are pervasive
consequences of colonialism," Mihesuah says. "Natives once gathered,
hunted and cultivated foods that kept them physically strong. Now,
many Natives across the Americas are sedentary and have lost touch
with their traditional tribal knowledge, including methods of
cultivating, preparing and preserving foods. Taking charge of our
health by boycotting the greasy, fatty, sugary and salty foods that
are killing us in favor of the nutrient-rich and unprocessed
indigenous foods of this hemisphere is greatly empowering."
"We can only do so much to combat racism and prejudice," Mihesuah
notes, "but we can control what we eat, what we feed our families and
how much we move around. We must take responsibility for our health
and for the well-being of our children. In so doing, we pass on a
legacy of self-respect and tribal strength to future generations."
Among the objectives of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards are to
help readers find the best out of the 24,000 food and wine books
produced every year from across the world.
Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens can be purchased through University
of Nebraska Press at 402-472-2759 or
unp.unl.edu/bookinfo/4926.html