This enriching cookbook celebrates eight important plants Native Americans introduced to the rest of the world: corn, beans, squash, chili, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao-with more than 100 recipes.When these eight Native American plants crossed the ocean after 1492, the world''s cuisines were changed foreverIn Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky, James Beard Award-winning author and chef Lois Ellen Frank introduces the splendour and importance of this Native culinary history and pairs it with delicious, modern, plant-based recipes using Native American ingredients. Along with Native American culinary advisor Walter Whitewater, Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky shares more than 100 nutritious, plant-based recipes organized by each of the foundational ingredients in Native American cuisine as well as a necessary discussion of food sovereignty and sustainability. A delicious, enlightening celebration of Indigenous foods and Southwestern flavours, Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky shares recipes for dishes