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Din4 Bich'iy2' The recipes in this website are traditional and modern, from many southwestern cultures. You will find that some of the ingredients are given in Navajo. To see a Navajo ingredient in English, just put your cursor over it. For example, put your cursor over the following word: t['ohchin
"Every food, as well as the physical acts of growing, preparing, and eating it, has a spiritual dimension. Tools for food preparation--from woven wheat plaques for carrying and serving bread, to polished baking stones, to yucca sieves, to polished baking stones, to carved stirring sticks--are infused with a sense of the divinity of man's relationship to nature, a direct link to his immediate natural surroundings. Hogans are constructed with forked posts that are blessed with corn pollen. Colored cornmeals and corn pollens are used to ritually bless sacred objects and participants, as well as in preparing sacred ceremonial breads." -Beth Hensberger, Breads of the Southwest
"The modern Navajo eats about the same kind of thing the rest of the inhabitants of the United States eat. In times past, however, they grew just about everything they ate, except for wild game. Aside from the traditional wild fare such as deer and rabbit, they also ate bear, gophers and prairie dogs. They didn't eat snakes as this would give them bad dreams and require a medicine man for a cure."
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