Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook Yuchi Spoken of only in whispers

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Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook Yuchi Spoken of only in whispersAn intimate and engaging Native food memoir. In these coming of age tales set on the Menominee Indian Reservation of the 1980s and 1990s, Thomas Pecore Weso explores the interrelated nature of meals and memories. As he puts it, "I cannot separate foods from the moments in my life when I first tasted them." Weso's stories recall the foods that influenced his youth in northern Wisconsin: subsistence meals from hunted, fished, and gathered sources; the