fry bread

The Larded Tribal Larder

The Larded Tribal LarderPosted by Kerry Trueman on December 2, 2005 - 4:04pm.

Native Americans gave us tobacco. Apparently, we returned the favor with fry bread.

I wasn’t up on the whole fry bread phenomenon till I heard a story on NPR’s All Things Considered a few weeks back. Now a fixture of Native American cuisine, it turns out that the deep fried dough isn’t indigenous to Native Americans at all; it became popular only when the Federal government began to issue commodities such as white flour and lard to native tribes at the turn of the century.


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