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RAVE REVIEWS
Where People Feast is an award finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the category of Cooking. The award will be announced on May 29, 2008 at BookExpo America.
Best Local Cuisine Book (Canada)Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in November 2007. See our press release
Our cookbook made it's second appearance on the BC Adult Best Seller List the week of Monday September 24, 2007
Best of B.C. The Vancouver Sun on Saturday, September 29, 2007 Section C10.
First Nations Cuisine - Dolly and Annie Watts have compiled their considerable knowledge of West Coast cuisine in "Where People Feast, An Indigenous People's Cookbook"
- Where Magazine Vancouver July 2007 (page 146)
A fascinating culinary history conveyed through a collection of Pacific Northwest indigenous dishes.
- Judith Lane, The Georgia Straight, Best Eating
Our cookbook made it's first appearance on the BC Adult Best Seller List the week of Monday June 11, 2007
Best of B.C. The Vancouver Sun on Saturday, June 16, 2007 Section C10.
Dolly and Annie are smiling because they have just produced on of the first cookbooks of West Coast First Nations cuisine. BC Bookworld Volume 41, Summer 2007
I am looking at the bannock and OH MY I have to dive into it.
Wild rice pancakes - Yum!
I like the idea of Indian Tacos.
Venison meatball sounds great.
-Fanny Kiefer, Studio 4 - Shaw TV
It Rocks!
—Shelagh Rogers, CBC, Sounds Like Canada
The Gitk'san authors weave aboriginal history and culture into dishes that honour the foods that are native to the coast of British Columbia.
—Heather Reid, Alberni Valley News
This book is appropriately named, because "feast" is exactly what I wanted to do after reading it.
—Eric Akis, Victoria Times Colonist
A chapter on smoking and preserving offers a closer historical look at indigenous culinary traditions. As one of the few titles on the topic, the Watts’ book is recommended.
—Library Journal
Long before the idea of a 100-mile diet popped into our heads, the First Nations people who lived here were already walking that walk.
They lived in an environment that can best be described as astonishingly bountiful; forests alive with game, berries, flowers, seeds and greens and seas and rivers also teeming with nourishing plant and animal life.
-Renee Blackstone, THE PROVINCE newspaper (printed version: Sunday, June 3, 2007)
Food traditions of North America's indigenous peoples are centuries old and endure to this day.
-Necessry Voices & Vancouver Public Library
As you read through the recipes, you get a sense of history and the culinnary creativity of aboriginal peoples.
- Monroe Monitor & Valley News
Through easy-to-follow recipes, the Watts give readers an excuse to raid the market and prepare dishes such as Venison Roast with Juniper Berry Rub, Wild Huckleberry Glazed Duck, and a Pacific Northwest favorite, clam chowder.... In a truly fitting tribute to the restaurant they once owned, the pair has put together an impressive collection of recipes.
—Northwest Palate, ARCHIVED BOOK REVIEWS section
Filled with delicious and unusual recipes guaranteed to whet your appetite for outstanding Aboriginal cuisine.... Where People Feast is a must-have for every Canadian kitchen.
—Western Native News
A glowing shard of the continent's aboriginal past can be found in Where People Feast, which not only is that rare bird, a Native Indian cookbook, but also provides considerable guidance on how to deal with such game meats as venison, elk, and buffalo.
—San Francisco Bay Guardian
Can the ladies cook? For those who forget, in 2004 Dolly Watts was declared the winner on an episode of the Food Network’s BC Iron Chef.
- City Food Magazine
Although focused on west coast Native cuisine, like its predecessor - the restaurant, this cookbook caters to across-culture cravings
-Bob Kennedy, Oneida, Turtle Island Native Network
Pass the oolichans: North America's indigenous peoples eat very well indeed: Smoked salmon mousse, Indian tacos, blackberry-glazed beets, wild rice pancakes.
-Nancy Lanthier, Vancouver Sun
Right Up There With John Bishop – Where People Feast. Try It Yourself
Many delicious meals can be made with readily-available materials.
-Florentia Scott, Westcoaster
This book is filled with new, different, unusual, and delicious recipes!
-Shiloah Baker, The Homemaking Cottage
I heard Dolly and Annie on the CBC yesterday on The Early Edition with Rick Cluff - very good interview. Dolly is an interviewer's dream - very well spoken and interesting to listen to.
-Teresa Goff, National Public Radio show The Splendid Table
This book MUST be entered into the Cuisine Canada book awards.
December 15th -- Anita Stewart's Book Picks, CBC Radio One Toronto - Fresh Air BOOKS 2007
-Anita Stewart, Author & Culinary Activist
Happily, her (Dolly) and daughter Annie's recipes live on in Arsenal Pulp Press's Where People Feast: An Indigenous People's Cookbook
-Malcolm Parry, Vancouver Sun columnist
Traditional dishes with new twist
-Shelley Boettcher, Calgary Herald
The flavor of the West Coast is very much alive
-Niomi Pearson, AV Times
The mother-daughter team who ran the Liliget Feast House share traditional and modern aboriginal recipes, including methods for smoking and drying wild game, preparing seafood, and preserving berries. The original 100-mile diet!
— Shared Vision (Editor's Pick - Hot Titles)
I'm from rural Pennsylvania, where the menfolk hunt and fish anything
that breathes and can be eaten, or frozen for later use. So I think your book might be of interest to my family who might want to try new ways of cooking our wild game, especially deer.
— Brandy Lien Worrall, Eating Stories: A Chinese Canadian and Aboriginal Potluck, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC
Annie encourages others to go for their dreams!
- My Tarot Dreams
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Interviewed by Caren McSherry of Global TV while doing a cooking demonstration on November 3 at The Gourmet Warehouse on Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, for Taste of BC Saturday Morning Chefs. Aired: January 19, 2008 8:15 a.m. Recipe printed in the Vancouver Sun, Food Section, Wednesday January 23, 2008.
Interviewed by Simi Sara of Breakfast TV and gave a cooking demonstration on August 29, 2007 at 9:06 a.m. at the CityTV station in Vancouver. Aired: Live. Irreverent, witty and informative: That's BT!
This cookbook, Where People Feast-An Indigenous Peoples Cookbook, sheds light on the unique culinary traditions and cooking techniques of Native American people who live along the Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia, Canada. This collection shows how to prepare and preserve wild game, seafood, vegetables, fruits, and unusual ingredients such as oolichan, herring roe, and sopalali berries, (all of which can be purchased online from distributors if not from your local, specialty or gourmet markets).
Where People Feast is co-authored by the mother-and-daughter team, Dolly (Watts) McRae and Annie Watts. Where People Feast celebrates Dolly and Annies twelve years spent running their restaurant (Liliget is a Gitksan word meaning where people feast) which was designed by internationally renowned Canadian architect Arthur Erickson.
Gaining acclaim in Canada and beyond, Dolly participated in a food competition in Vancouver called the BC Gold Komochi Konbu Iron Chef Challenge. Michael Smith (Chef at Large) of the Food Network was one of the judges. The event was held at the Listel Hotel, cooking alongside Japanese Iron Chefs on recipes that featured traditional spawn on kelp, and won; she was also recognized with a National Aboriginal Achievement Award for business and commerce. Accolades for the restaurant include: The New York Times gave Liliget a four-star recommendation, Where Magazine voted it Best Ethnic Cuisine, and Aboriginal Tourism BC awarded Liliget with the Excellence in Customer Service Award
The cooks of Liliget Feast House cooked over an alder wood-burning grill, preparing such mouth-watering dishes as Alder-Grilled Marinated Elk, Sweet Potato Tarts, with Savory Blueberry Jam, and Sopalali Mousse for dessert for local regulars, out-of-town tourists, and celebrities alike.
Where People Feast is a wide-ranging collection of traditional (and not-so-traditional) west coast aboriginal recipes. Now that Liliget Feast House has closed its doors, both Dolly and Annie are happy that its legacy can live on in this cookbook.
Liliget Feast House - interior
The Wild Game chapter includes delectable entrées such as Venison Roast with Juniper Berry Rub, Rabbit Pot Pie, Chokecherry-Glazed Grouse, and Wild Buffalo Burgers. Seafoods has recipes for all fish and shellfish that run the oceans and rivers of the Pacific Northwest Coast region: salmon, halibut, crab, oysters, clams, scallops, shrimp, Alaskan Black Cod, and oolichan fish that populate British Columbia rivers by the millions, or a delicacy herring spawn on kelp.
Vegetables, Salads & Sides you’ll find recipes for Alder-Grilled Butternut Squash, Blackberry-Glazed Beets, the Native interpretation of the classic Caesar salad called Caesar Goes Wild Salad, and numerous recipes for indigenous wild rice that grows across North America. The chapter Soups & Stocks cooks up mouth-watering soups, stews, chowders, and stocks that use ingredients such as salmon, buffalo, hominy corn, and shiitake mushrooms.
Next, the Sauces and Condiments chapter shares Liliget Feast Houses special recipes for their popular Dill Sauce, Raspberry Cranberry Chutney, and Brown Mushroom Gravy. Baked Goods & Desserts provides Dolly’s claim to fame: Just Like Grandma’s Bannock, a traditional fried bread recipe, as well as many other delicious treats with a First Nations twist. And finally, Where People Feast concludes with a unique and insightful chapter, Smoked Foods & Preserves, which provides traditional methods and contemporary recipes for smoking and drying wild game and seafood and preserving berries.
Liliget Feast House - mural
VENISON ROAST WITH JUNIPER BERRY RUB
Juniper berries are the deep purple fruit of the juniper bush. They have a bittersweet pine flavor with a peppery aftertaste. Serve with Savory Red Currant Jelly.
1 tbsp dried juniper berries
1 clove garlic
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp onion flakes
1 lb (445 g) venison, rump roast (may substitute with beef)
1 tbsp grapeseed oil
1 cup boiling water
Preheat oven to 350°F (180° C). Crush the berries, garlic, cayenne pepper, cumin seeds, and onion flakes in a mortar. Rub the crushed spices onto the roast and then pan-sear the roast in a hot frying pan with the oil to lock in the juices. Put roast in a roasting pan and add the boiling water, then roast for 1 hour, basting at least 4 times. Makes 3 servings.
Display at Chapters on Robson Street in downtown Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Dolly and Annies agent Brian Wood
Acknowledgement
Firstly, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to Brian Wood, our agent, and the brilliant team at Arsenal Pulp Press who worked diligently to help make this book a reality.
Next, we would like to thank our families, friends, and guests who have supported our efforts all these years.
Finally, we would like to thank the media that hosted our cooking classes and wrote about this cookbook.
Wild Blueberry Cobbler (page 137)
Cookbook signing at the Vancouver Public Library
Pam Douglas and Sarah Ellis with Dolly and Annie
Cooking Demonstration for the Sorority Sisters of Qualicum Beach.
Purchase Where People Feast, An Indigenous Peoples Cookbook from Chapters Indigo.
Wildberry Bannock Pudding
Please ask your local bookstore to carry Where People Feast, An Indigenous Peoples Cookbook. Consider treating yourself and a good friend to a copy each and tell everyone you know about it!
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UP COMING EVENTS
Join us on Saturday, June 14, 2008 as we sign cookbooks during a Cocktail Party at The Salmon House Restaurant located at 2229 Folkestone Way, West Vancouver, BC Call (604) 926-3212 to RVSP. There will be a media event May 28, 2008, where special menus for the month will be showcased.
PAST EVENTS
Interviewed by Veteran CBC broadcaster Rick Cluff for the CBC Early Edition Airing: Friday, May 18, 2007 between 5:30 and 8:30 a.m.
Interviewed by Carolina de Ryk, associate producer of CBC Radio One's program Daybreak North in Prince Rupert. This program is hosted by Chris Walker and Russel Bowers. Aired: April 13, 2007
Interviewed by Shelley Boettcher, a writer for the Calgary Herald Article: "Traditional dishes with new twitst" Sunday, May 27, 2007
We signed cookbooks on June 2, 2007 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Whole Foods Market in the Village at the Park Royal Shopping Center located in West Vancouver.
Radio interview by Peter Anthony Holder host of HOLDER TONIGHT - News Talk Radio CJAD 800 AM in Montreal, Quebec Aired live Tuesday, June 19, 2007.
On June 21, 2007 at 5 p.m., which was also National Aboriginal Day, we signed cookbooks at The Book Company located at 833 Park Royal Shopping Centre, West Vancouver.
On June 21, 2007 at 6 p.m., which is also National Aboriginal Day, we signed cookbooks and answer questions at Chapters Indigo Books and Music Store located in the Park Royal Shopping Mall in West Vancouver.
On June 22, 2007 at 1 p.m. we were interviewed by Troy Dakus host of the Starchoice CFWE 852 which was broadcasted live from Edmonton, Alberta.
On June 24, 12 to 2 p.m. we discussed food, culture, and signed our incredible newly published cookbook, Where People Feast at Barbara-Jo's Books to Cooks at the Net Loft on Granville Island, 1666 Johnston Street #11A
On June 27, 2007 at 10 p.m. PST we were interview with the Native America Calling - Native Voice One - NV1 - for the Book of the Month show. There were 10 lucky callers that won a free cookbook!! The show was a live broadcast from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Interviewed by Jason Brown food columnist for Monday Magazine - Kitchen Party - Victoria. (July 2007)
We were interviewd by Dawn Karima Pettigrew host of the Rezervations radio talk show for the radio network Native America Calling - Native Voice One. The show was prerecorded and will air Monday and Wednesday: 8:00 am and 6:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 pm (times are in Eastern Time)
We were invited to do a cookbook signing at Wal-Mart in Port Alberni on July 27, 28 and 29
Interviewed and photographed by Heather Reid of the Alberni Valley News during the cookbook signing at Wal-Mart in Port Alberni on July 27, 2007.
Interviewed by Sonya of AV Times during the cookbook signing at Wal-Mart in Port Alberni on July 27, 2007.
We were invited by Tony Talarico of MVKA Productions, Special Events and Global Event Design and Management in Vancouver to give a short lecture on First Nation history and food at the Pan Pacific Hotel for his client: Symantec Corporation, August 7, 2007
We were invited to do a cookbook signing at Wal-Mart in Port Alberni on August 17 and 18, 2007
On August 29, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. we conducted a 6 course meal cooking class (click here to see menu) at Edible British Columbia located at 1689 Johnston Street in the heart of Granville Island Public Market where thier moto is "Buy Local, Eat Local, Give Local"
We were invited to do a cookbook signing at Wal-Mart in Port Alberni on September 28 and 29, 2007.
We were invited to do a cookbook demonstration and signing at Barbara Jo's Books to Cooks in Vancouver, BC on November 3, 2007 for Slow Foods Canada, Vancouver Chapter.Slow Food Canada was founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986, and became an international association in 1989. It now boasts 85,000 members, offices (in order of creation) in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, USA, France, Japan and the United Kingdom and supporters in 130 countries.
We were invited to do a cookbook signing at Chapters Indigo on Marine Drive, North Vancouver, BC, on November 14, 2007.
We were invited to the Ultimate Holiday Cookbook Social at the Palace Ballroom in Seattle, WA, USA, on December 3, 2007 organized by Tom Douglas.
We were invited to do a cookbook signing at Chapters Indigo in Victoria, BC, on December 15, 2007.
On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., we conducted a cooking class and signed cookbooks for the Port Alberni Parks and Recreation Department, located in Echo Centre, 4255 Wallace Street, Port Alberni, BC Call (250) 723-2181.
As members of the Gitxsan Nation, we were invited by the Gitxsan Treaty Office to give a presentation on Womens Day in Hazelton, B.C. Wednesday, February 20, 2008 .
Venison Meatballs
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