Creamy, nourishing, and naturally sweet, blue corn mush is comfort in a bowl. It's a traditional dish among the Navajo tribe and other indigenous peoples.

Last, as a breakfast meal, the blue corn mush provides the nutrients and calories needed for a long day's work of… cultivating more corn. You can think of it like baking soda.

Cooking Blue Corn Mush It was there Begay found the calcium level was fairly high. “For every gram of ash that I was able to sample, I was getting roughly 280-300 milligrams of calcium,” Begay ...

Then we sit down to a hot bowl of delicious blue corn mush. It reminds me a bit of cream of wheat. As for Begay, he says he wants to get the word out to the Navajo people that juniper ash is a ...

Before colonization, blue corn mush offered members of Navajo tribes a form of calcium when milk was not available. The recipe has been passed down from generation to generation, and on Monday ...

Blue Corn, Bear Root, and Resilience Posted by Karlos Baca on October 19, 2018 Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author.

Grits may be ground from whole corn, or from hominy, which is corn boiled or soaked in some kind of alkali (lye from wood ash or lime slaked from limestone).

Customers can feast on blue-corn mush and bison tartare. Though indigenous restaurants remain scarce, they are spreading. Recent openings include Wapehpah’s Kitchen in Oakland, California, and ...

The most popular: blue corn mush. Begay, a graduate student at Northern Arizona University, analyzed the amount of calcium in 27 samples of juniper from all over the reservation.

Lillie Pete sifts the juniper ash before adding it to her blue corn mush. Laurel Morales / KJZZ Daniel Begay, who is Navajo, had always been told growing up that traditional American Indian foods ...