The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen — University of Minnesota Press
Award-winning recipes, stories, and wisdom from the celebrated indigenous chef and his team
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Award-winning recipes, stories, and wisdom from the celebrated indigenous chef and his team
I was recently directed to the Facebook group “Minnesota Naturalists” because there was a post made by a member about the creeks within Mankato.
Mankato means blue earth. A lot of people—even people from Mankato—don’t realize that the blue earth we were named for was literally bright blue. Most of it is gone now, because early settlers mistook it for a sign that there was copper in the ground, so it was mined. But there are still deposits of it in a few of the smaller creeks around Mankato.
Award-winning recipes, stories, and wisdom from the celebrated indigenous chef and his team