On Apr 16, 12:03*pm, Ema Nymton > wrote:
> On 4/15/2013 11:41 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
>
> > A friend's late mother was fascinated by native Americans, and spoke
> > of theIndian trinityof corn, beans, andsquash, with chilies for
> > spice.
>
> These are called the "Three Sisters"; corn, beans andsquash.
>


"Kim Williams' Cookbook & Commentary" (Knight-Ridder Press, $9.95).

Like Beard, Williams had zest for the pleasurable role food plays in
life, and also like Beard, her enthusiasm was contagious.

For more than a decade Williams was a guest commentator on National
Public Radio, offering advice, opinions and recipes from her home in
Missoula, Mont. Her book, published in 1983, is a celebration of the
foods linked with each season.

"Very few things in life go as they should, so it's important to me to
search for watercress in the spring and then eat it; to dig the first
dandelion and make a salad; to eat rhubarb pie with the first rhubarb
(yes, sugar and all); to celebrate summer with corn, beans and squash
(the Indian trinity); to harvest the sun and put it into glass jars in
the pantry," she wrote. "Even though I don't eat much jam and jelly I
have to make it. It's a ritual. Drying plums and pears and apples is a
ritual. Baking pumpkin bread - even though it's more like cake than
bread and we should call it cake - it's part of fall."