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CNNEditor’s Note: Where present, the chef’s tribal affiliation is noted in parentheses. It’s not just fry bread Tocabe's bison ribs with blueberry barbecue sauce Courtesy Adam Larkey/Tocabe But Native American cuisine doesn’t start or end with fry bread. The new wave Pueblo Harvest Café's grilled corn Courtesy Caitlin Cano/Pueblo Harvest Café Frank, who is also a culinary anthropologist, authored the first Native American cookbook to turn the heads of James Beard Foundation award judges in 2003, winning the prize for best American cookbook. If you’d like to enjoy some of this food for yourself, here are six of the best Native American restaurants in the country: Mitsitam Native Foods Café, Washington D.C. Plank-grilled salmon at Mitsitam Café Courtesy Phillip Greenberg/Mitsitam Café Chef Freddie Bitsoie made headlines in 2016 when he became the first Native American chef of Mitsitam Native Foods Café, the restaurant at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St. NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104; +1 843-7270 Kai, Phoenix, Arizona Halibut and grey pearl oysters at Kai Courtesy Evan Johnson/Kai Chef de Cuisine Ryan Swanson adapts Pima and Maricopa tribal foods to modern taste buds with great sophistication at this Native American-owned restaurant.
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