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Canada's First Cooks

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Cover of cookbook, THE RURAL AND NATIVE HERITAGE COOKBOOK, featuring an illustration of several species of birds Source

  

Page 90 of cookbook, THE RURAL AND NATIVE HERITAGE COOKBOOK, with instructions on how to prepare venison for cooking Source

  

Page 91 of cookbook, THE RURAL AND NATIVE HERITAGE COOKBOOK, with instructions on how to prepare various small game animals for cooking: beaver, beaver tails, frog legs, ground hog and muskrat Source

The Rural and Native Heritage Cookbook. Burleigh Falls, Ont.: Lovesick Lake Native Women's Association, 1985

Cover of cookbook, FOODS OF THE SHUSWAP PEOPLE, featuring a illustration of a Shuswap hunter tracking a deer with a bow and arrow in the woods Source

  

Page 12 of cookbook, FOODS OF THE SHUSWAP PEOPLE, featuring an illustration of a Shuswap man netting a fish, with an introductory text on Shuswap animal-based foods and the start of a text on hunting, trapping and snaring Source

  

Page 13 of cookbook, FOODS OF THE SHUSWAP PEOPLE, featuring an illustration of a Shuswap hunter returning from hunting with his bow and arrow and a basket on his back filled with small game animals; and the continuation of a text on Shuswap hunting, trapping and snaring Source

Marie Matthew and David Seymour. Foods of the Shuswap People. Kamloops, B.C.: Secwepemc Cultural Education Society, 1986

One of a series of booklets that record the traditions of the Shuswap people of the Kamloops region of British Columbia. "Hunters depended mainly on the results of their hunting to get food while they were away from camp. They made kettles, for boiling or storing water, out of spruce bark or a cleaned deer stomach. These were placed near the fire, and had hot rocks added to them to cook the meat" (p. 18).

Cover of cookbook, FOOD PLANTS OF COASTAL FIRST PEOPLES, featuring full-page photograph of different varieties of berries Source

  

Nancy J. Turner. Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1995

The author provides pictures and descriptions of the plants used by West Coast Native peoples. Turner also describes the etiquette involved in the way each plant was prepared and eaten, including the songs sung at the gatherings where plants were served.
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