Reviving the Cuisine of Their Ancestors
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Arts+Culture | Styles | Food | Travel | Science+Technology | Health 5 Native American chefs are resurrecting cooking techniques of the Lakota and Ojibwe tribes who farmed Reviving the Cuisine and foraged on the Great Plains of the Midwest. These precolonial food cultures were sophisticated and relied on complex trade routes and traditions. The secrets of this Of Their Ancestors cuisine are being shared by tribal elders and academics. Norah Jones, Pop Crew of ‘Brujas’ Star, Reconnects Makes the Scene To Her Jazz Roots At Skateparks 3 The artist is a different 4 A multi-ethnic group person than the one who of female skateboarders burst on the scene with the is shaking up the male- wildly successly “Come dominated sport and Away With Me” in 2002. finding ways to express She’s a mother now, and is their freedom while leaning on her training as a learning to do new tricks. jazz pianist in her new work. “This holds so much more meaning for us than what people call Paleo,” he said, “because we can see the real diets of our ancestors, and we see how people lived in this region.” Alex Jimerson, 27, a graduate student in the food- studies program at New York University 2 “This holds so much more meaning for us than what people call Paleo because we can THE MIX see the real diets of our ancestors, and we can see how people lived in this region.” – Alex Jimerson, 27, a student in food studies, on Native American cuisine An App to Expose Your Food Choices Special Tool to Cut A Watermelon Ever wondered how long you’d have to swim to burn off the cal- ories in an organic peanut butter cup? 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The idea of shutting them away Now, however, between Mrs. In Men's Fashion Forget grass-fed beef and free- may strike them as odd as plac- Clinton and Theresa May, Brit- range poultry. China’s farmers ing their less-pleasant children ain’s new prime minister (and The challenge of men’s fash- say they have found the next big under quarantine. (And some to a certain extent, Nicola Stur- ion week, now in its third sea- health-food craze: cows, pigs pets go nutso if their territory is geon, the first minister of Scot- son, is resolving the balance of and ducks raised on a steady shrunk.) Spell it out. You can’t land), two more women are in commerce and creativity, and diet of ancient Chinese medi- possibly want to blow up your re- the public eye, not as spous- the wildly disparate aesthet- cine. Practitioners in China have lationship with your daughter-in- es of world leaders. And they ics and ambitions that come to- prescribed blends of medicinal law over one insensitive episode. are, quietly but unquestionably, gether. No fashion week harbors plants and herbs for centuries –PHILIP GALANES changing the rules about what it consensus, either ideological- to ward off disease in humans. means to look like a president or ly or aesthetically, but the range Now, farmers are adapting the prime minister. is particularly broad here. It age-old elixirs — a dash of gin- should come with a warning. seng here, a speck of licorice Several New York design- there — for use on livestock. ers elected to stage their shows The results, they promise, are away from the official hub. not only delicious but healthy: “To be able to separate our- lean, juicy meats that can pro- selves is really nice,” said Mat- tect against colds, arthritis and thew Orley, who won the Council other illnesses. The science is of Fashion Designers of Ameri- less resounding, though one ca’s Swarovski Award “We were study did find that cows that trying to put our business before were fed Chinese medicines per- our egos.” formed better in hot weather. THE WORK LIFE The Incalculable Value of Finding a Job You Love Satisfaction at work is tightly linked to the mission of your employer BY ROBERT H. FRANK be more satisfying. Your better in some way, or ity, even if it doesn’t lead to high Social scientists have been house would be small- at least haven’t made it financial rewards. I tell them not trying to identify the conditions er in absolute terms, but worse. to worry about the money. most likely to promote satisfy- because it would be big- But moral satisfac- The happiness literature has ing human lives.