Native American Foodways and Fish

Smoked fish soup, recipe below

Here is an early Seventh century description of Native American cookery and fish in the Chesapeake region of the US South that the British captain John smith provides. “Their fish . . . they boyle either very tenderly, or broyle it so long on hurdles over the fire; or else after the Spanish fashion, putting it on a spit, they turn first the one side, then the other, till it be as dire as their jerkin beefe in the west Indies, that they keep it a month or more without putrefying. Here is a Native American fish recipe.

Maple Sugar Smoked Fish recipe: http://www.recipegoldmine.com/worldnativeam/maple-sugar-smoked-fish.html