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Deborama’s Kitchen — A catch-up: Wild rice, “sea beans,” snow, and more
It’s been a long time since I did a Deborama’s Kitchen. My eating patterns are becoming ever more disordered, but not nearly as disordered as my sleep patterns. (Of course, they are inter-related, so I don’t know why I even said that.) But still there are a few good meals to share, and a few not-so-good but thereby instructive.
A few days after my last post I began to worry about the manoomin. I had attempted to buy some before Christmas from Honor the Earth, which is the non-profit run by Winona LaDuke. They sell “merch” to supplement donations, like many non-profits, and it was a great way to buy wild rice and know it came from Ojibwe gatherers. But they were out of stock.
I suppose you have heard that we (decent people in Minnesota) were unable to stop the installation and startup of Line 3, a tar sands pipeline that adds grievous insult to grievous injury by routing through and near most of the important lakes, rivers, wild rice stands and Ojibwe un-ceded treaty lands in Minnesota.
Simultaneously, more or less, with this, the other big 2021 news from Minnesota was the opening in mid-July of Sean Sherman and Dana Thompson’s history-making restaurant Owamni, reviewed by me in November.
