In fifty short essays

Most popular accounts of Hopi history romanticize Hopi society as “timeless

and ceremonies that marked the individual's passage from birth to death

" —from the Prologue

Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine visual arts In fifty short essaysGrowing up in Shawnee, Oklahoma, among a host of grandmothers and aunties, Loretta Barrett Oden learned the lessons and lore of Potawatomi cooking, along with those of her fathers family, whose ancestors arrived on the Mayflower. This rich cultural blend came to bear in the iconic restaurant she opened in Santa Fe, the Corn Dance Caf, where many of the dishes in this book had their debut, setting Loretta on her path to fame as one of the most