The Original Old West Cookbook - A Collection of Recipes in the Chuckwagon, Pioneer, and Southwest Tradition
To appreciate Western cooking, it helps to know a little of the history of the Old West, which in most cases is as vivid and spicy as the cooking. The story of course begins with the Indians. The Southwestern tribes lived in permanent villages, growing corn, beans, squash and other native crops, often with the help of irrigation. The northernmost of these tribes were the Pueblo Indians (pueblo is Spanish for village) of the upper Rio Grande in what is now New Mexico and Colorado. For a thousand years and more they had led their communal lives in almost total isolation, but it was these civilized Indians who made Southwest so different from other areas. The food of the upper Rio Grande is strongly influenced by the Indians, notably in the use of corn.
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The Original Old West Cookbook
To appreciate Western cooking, it helps to know a little of the history of the Old West, which in most cases is as vivid and spicy as the cooking. The story of course begins with the Indians. The Southwestern tribes lived in permanent villages, growing corn, beans, squash and other native crops, often with the help of irrigation. The northernmost of these tribes were the Pueblo Indians (pueblo is Spanish for village) of the upper Rio Grande in what is now New Mexico and Colorado. For a thousand years and more they had led their communal lives in almost total isolation, but it was these civilized Indians who made Southwest so different from other areas. The food of the upper Rio Grande is strongly influenced by the Indians, notably in the use of corn.
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