Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook Yuchi "I'm committed to uncovering the

"I'm committed to uncovering the culture of my people

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"—San Francisco Chronicle

A startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event

Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook Yuchi "I'm committed to uncovering theAn 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