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Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine (Jessica B. Harris) Mexico City trout from the river TigrisOne of our preeminent culinary historians, Dr. Jessica B. Harris has conducted decades of research throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, and Africa. In this telling of the origins of American food, though, she gets more personal. As heritage is history, she intertwines the larger sweeping past with stories and recipes from friends shes made over the yearspeople whose family dishes go back to the crucial era when Native peoples encountered Europeans