How about taking some culinary tips from the Shoshone, the original locavores, this holiday season? Ever the gourmets, the Shoshone gathered spices and wild honey in the fall, and collected peppermint, rose hips and herbs to make teas and medicines. Traditional foods included buffalo, elk, deer, antelope, and moose hunted with bow and arrow, clubs, and snares. The Shoshone also hunted and trapped ducks, geese, grouse and other fowl, and collected their eggs in fields and marshes as well as fish they caught using spears, poles and baskets. Traditional foods are a pillar of every culture, feeding much more than our physical bodies. The Native community knows better than most that food choices are a living link with the land and with their legacy, helping them to always remember who they are and where they come from.
