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Bestsmelling Author & Food Writer Ayukîi! 👋🏼 she/her Karuk & Italian 🪶🍝 “Chími Nu'am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen” https://linktr.ee/thefrybreadriot

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · Nov 16

Ayukîi! I’m a Karuk tribal member & author of Chími Nu'am, Native CA Foodways For the Contemporary Kitchen
🍅 Working in community food security & recipe development
🦋 I’m a Doula (CFIM certified full-spectrum) Supporting birth with cultural connection & advocacy
I 🩷 sewing, reading & video games

Outdoor photo of the Trinity river on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. This site on the river includes a traditional village site & a reminder of the fish wars with the rocks on the beach spelling out FISH ON. The view is shot looking upriver with the rising sun in the east (left side)

A bowl of huckleberry gazpacho with acorn bread croutons on a sunny day. Garnished with smoked salmon, fresh summer corn, purslane, fennel & edible flowers.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 17h

a cartoon character is holding a lighter with a red and white stripe on it

ALT: a cartoon character is holding a lighter with a red and white stripe on it

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 17h

When I was pregnant I would wrap dill pickles with fruit roll ups so I guess you can tell her to deal me on those salummy bears.

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 17h

I love locking eyes with a toddler who is about to lose their shit & whispering “do it, let it out, you’re right this IS bullshit” and their eyes get big like they’re seeing the devil herself. Yes babes release your howls unleash the darkness rend the fabric of our eardrums and cleanse this Target.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

Just a masterpiece that one! So handsome. He could be about to steal top secret plans & jump out of a helicopter with a monster martini. I wish I could go back in time just to see my large sons in their teenager era again, they were so cute but so absurd & their jokes were better back then lol

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 2d

Yesss this is my fat bear season

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 2d

Oops it's number 7. I forgot I double Wendig'd last time.

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 2d

Ah my first fire of the fall. I’m so glad I stopped on my way to the cabin last night and stole some wood from the trumper down the road.

Photo of my parlor stove with the door slightly ajar and the glow of embers peeking out.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 2d

Spooky Audiobooks Month🎃📚
#6 Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
This book has lived rent-free in my mind since 1993. I read it as horror then, a perfectly written scary story. Over time the messages & parallels settled into my molecules & I do community work so I don't see cannibals on the 5.

Beautiful cover of a Black woman with a backdrop of stars, her hands open. An earth in the center of her chest. The title in yellow serif notes that it's narrated by Lynne Thigpen. Her voice reads so beautifully, like this story is coming from her soul.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 2d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 3d

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 4d

Actually I talk about this all the time, just not on social media because I treat sm like my annoying little diary. I am wrong for not using social media properly, but it just doesn't feel the same as running my mouth in person. Here is a slide with some differences between foragers & gatherers.

GATHERING
Gathering implies relationship
Grounded in service & reciprocity
Community is a priority for gatherers
Year-round tending, burning, restoration & activism
FORAGING
Foraging is often extractive
Harms generational subsistence gatherers (usually elders)
Commercial foraging dollars do not stay in community
No relationship or kinship with Native communities

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 4d

Ok but just make sure you have an emotional support cartoon ready to wash your brain 🫡

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 4d

One thing that I don’t talk about enough is how many commercial foragers in proximity to our traditional foods may seem like they’re good earthy people—but when push comes to shove they are all about the dollars not the sense because the entire business model is just “taking.”

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 4d

Spooky Audiobooks Month
#5 & #6 The Staircase in the Woods & Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig who has me in a chokehold I guess. Staircase is the novelized version of screaming crying throwing up & how trauma warps the jello of reality & friendship.
Black River is about spooky apples baby.

A screenshot of the cover of The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig. There is a sickly yellow and greenish light in the woods illuminating a detached spiral staircase.

Screenshot of cover for Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig. A lone scraggly apple tree growing on the shore of a black river. There is a single spooky perfect red apple on the tree.

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 5d

This time of year is when witchy women are at their most powerful so you better give them little treats

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh sending good thoughts to their hot air balloon 🙏

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 5d

omg that sounds so fun. like each word in that paragraph got more and more fun.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 5d

Spooky Audiobook 4
The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
Also in the “wtf did I just read” terror category, somebody might need to check on Beth. She wrote the hell out of this post-apocalyptic western frontier scarescape. The narration viscerally unsettled me so much I needed a bridgerton chaser before bed.

Screenshot of book cover from Libby. Large white title lettering with black and red faded trees in the background. Completely impossible to tell how bananarama batshit scary this cat n mouse story is from the cover.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 5d

My girl math calculates that packing for 1 week of cabin time is the same as packing for 1 month of cabin time so why not just stay for a month. Yes, I'm significantly more feral by the time I get home but who doesn't love having a human raccoon around climbing the walls & talking to birds.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 6d

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 6d

Spooky Audiobook Month numba 3: The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
Firmly in the category of “wtf did I just read?!” this revoltingly gory medieval sapphic horror fever dream put this look on my face 😲 for 13 hours. It was so different, so experimental, a lil cosmic horror adjacent maybe?

Screenshot from my Libby timeline: Black background, Book Cover reads The Starving Saints in pink medieval font. An illustration of a nun with a face full of weird babies instead of a head under her habit. She is holding a honeycomb frame with delicate statuesque fingers and behind her head is a big yellow circle, like a halo. Creepy vibes!

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 6d

Here you go, the recipe is in my book with a lot of other acorn recipes if you’re interested quietquailbooks.com/shop-books/p...

Recipe for acorn hummus:
3 garlic cloves, smashed
Juice from 2 lemons
½ cup acorn meal (slightly chunkier than flour)
1 (15 ounce) can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
3 dates, pitted
½ cup tahini
½ cup olive oil, plus more to finish
Salt to taste
1 teaspoon ground sumac (optional, see Note)
ACORN HUMMUS
Soak the garlic in the lemon juice for 10 to 20 minutes. It will take some of the bite out of the raw garlic. Add the garlic to a food processor when ready. Then add the acorn meal, chickpeas, dates, and tahini and pulse until completely blended.
Stream in the olive oil while pulsing until the hummus becomes smooth and creamy. Add salt to taste and blend it in.
Scoop the hummus into a bowl, drizzle olive oil on top, sprinkle with sumac (if using), and cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour for the flavors to mingle and develop.
Note: Even though laurel sumac is native to Southern California, this hummus is best with a regular tangy, sour Mediterranean sumac, which can be found in the spice aisle of most grocery stores.

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 7d

Idk how to plate things all profesh but it’s a dollop of acorn hummus with a pinch of sumac, bay, dried flowers, douglas fir smoked salt, a drizzle of olive oil & some buttery acorn crackers crossing to form the roof of a traditional dugout house. Made for the SNAHC First Foods Dinner tonight 🥹🫶🏻

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multiple plates dishes of the dugout house cracker hummus situation.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 8d

I googled how much hummus I'd have to make for 200 people & it said 50 lbs. So I then made nowhere near 50 pounds of hummus because my Vitamix died immediately & I've been rage blending tiny batches of acorn hummus. I could never be a caterer, I would be a living poltergeist.

Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 8d

I would be so insufferable.