Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook

by Thomas Pecore Weso

An 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1976600219
• ISBN13: 9781976600210
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"