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The Fast of the Blackfoot People
Monika Kucia
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Monika Kucia:
is a journalist and culinary superintendent at sialababamak.pl. Monika likes to bring words, flavours and people together. She helps foreigners learn about Poland from the tastiest side. She also creates culinary spectacles in which she encourages participants to eat leftovers, breathe in the smells of the basement, and sprinkle food with golden dust.

What can we learn from the Blackfoot people? Why are they driven to fast? This risky challenge can unleash the ‘spirit molecule’ within us.

Cedar, tobacco, sage and chicken broth are the culinary elements of the Blackfoot fast, which some people in Poland are also starting to observe. The Chief of the Sun Dance Ceremony, Keith Chiefmoon (Kainai Blood Reserve, Canada), grew up in a traditional home of the

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Monika Kucia:
is a journalist and culinary superintendent at sialababamak.pl. Monika likes to bring words, flavours and people together. She helps foreigners learn about Poland from the tastiest side. She also creates culinary spectacles in which she encourages participants to eat leftovers, breathe in the smells of the basement, and sprinkle food with golden dust.
Translation: Kate Webster
Publish date: 18.09.2020

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