Where People Feast, An Indigenous Peoples Cookbook, celebrates the native cuisine, and the fusion created by the culinary meeting place of the native foods with the European settler.
- Quill and Drum January 2010 (page 18)
The cookbook has a spot in a guide that was published for hand out during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
- Northwest Coast Native Guide, a First Nations tourism guide to the westcoast.
In November 2007, over 6000 entries from 107 countries were received by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards committee and Where People Feast won the award for Best Local Cookery in Canada! The cookbook has also won a world title in the same category. See our press release. Recognized as the Oscars of the food and wine industry, the Gourmand Awards help booksellers and buyers identify the best out of the 24,000 food and wine books published every year.
When you grow up in the country, you're on a guest list to the free store: nature's supermarket.
- Mia Stainsby, Food Critic, August 2008
The cookbook made two appearances on the BC Adult Best Seller List the week of Monday June 11, 2007 and Monday September 24, 2007
Best of B.C. 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.
Best of B.C. 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.
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 and Vancouver Public Library
As you read through the recipes, you get a sense of history and the culinnary creativity of aboriginal peoples.
- Monroe Monitor and 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 Networks 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
Pass the oolichans: North America's indigenous peoples eat very well indeed: Smoked salmon mousse, Indian tacos, blackberry-glazed beets, wild rice pancakes.
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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
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
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!
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
