The Modern Navajo Kitchen: Homestyle Recipes that Celebrate the Flavors and Traditions of the Din

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The Modern Navajo Kitchen spotlights Navajo cuisine and culture with over 50 recipes.
The Modern Navajo Kitchen takes you on an exhilarating journey for your taste buds. This beautifully illustrated, inclusive cookbook ties together global recipes with a Navajo spin, creating a truly unique culinary experience!
Choose from a plethora of drinks, breads, breakfasts, soups, mains, sides, and desserts-the sky's the limit.
Incorporating ingredients traditional to Navajo cuisine, some of the deliciously nourishing recipes include:
Navajo Boba Milk Tea
Traditional Blue Corn Bread
Three Sisters Salad
Maple Pumpkin Cookies
and more!
This comprehensive cookbook also includes instructions for how to make juniper ash, a traditional component in making blue cornmeal, a staple in Navajo cuisine. Additionally, a short history of Navajo culinary traditions is provided to provide cultural context behind your new culinary experiences.
Reconnect to your cultural heritage or treat your palate (or both!) with The Modern Navajo Kitchen.

Author Bio

Alana Yazzie is the creator of The Fancy Navajo, a lifestyle and food blog created in 2014, that follows Alana's life as a contemporary Din/Navajo woman living in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Originally from Northwest New Mexico, Alana inspires others to embrace their culture, wherever they live, by sharing a variety of lifestyle content such as recipes, fashion, and gardening infused with her Navajo heritage. Alana's greatest passion is developing innovative and approachable recipes that use Indigenous and Southwestern ingredients. Through, The Fancy Navajo, she enjoys capturing her Navajo lifestyle in modern and bright settings to showcase the continued presence and thriving of Indigenous peoples.