Chimi Nu'am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen

$40.00 at de Young Museum.

More than seventy delectable recipes that bring California’s Indigenous cuisines into kitchens today. In this sumptuous cookbook, Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk) reimagines some of the oldest foods in California for home cooks today. Meaning “Let’s eat!” in the Karuk language, Chími Nu’am shares the author’s delicious and inventive takes on Native food styles from across California. Over seventy seasonal recipes centered on a rich array of Indigenous ingredients follow the year from Fall (elk chili beans, acorn…