Nephi Craig
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
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My encounters with colonization and colonialism kind of only encapsulate maybe about 300 years in the United States and the American Southwest.
But as I studied Amaranth, it opened up this portal that took back five, six, seven, 800 years in Mexico and South America.
There's two colors.
There's white amaranth and there's red amaranth.
And it's one of the staple foods that's been grown all over Mexico and South America.
Very high in protein.
Very good for you.
You can eat the stems and the greens when it's small.
And you can use the fibers and the seeds are what are cultivated and popped and used in porridges, flatbreads, just for the popped seeds themselves.
But then learning that it's a sacred food and then learning that you could pop it, it just really blew my mind.
So you get a dry saute pan or a pan, nice and hot, probably about 470 degrees.
Put a little few amaranth seeds in the pot and it'll pop and it'll look like popcorn.
And you can – it takes a lot of practice because at first you're going to – you might burn it.
But when you pop it, it looks and smells just like teeny tiny popcorn.
It's really delicious.
Well, I'll put it this way.
For major American holidays like Thanksgiving, everyday staples like turkey, corn and squash and cranberries, those are all important indigenous foods.
And when people ask me what recipes or what ways do we prepare native foods differently or the question comes up, how come I haven't heard of a Native American restaurant or why are there no Native American cookbooks?
I usually will say, well, you've been eating Native American foods and cuisine since, as long as you can remember, it's just that the stories are not told.
All of American cuisine, every region in the United States is built on the landscapes or the ancestral terroir of Native American foods and food traditions.
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