Food+DEF+&G

Moris Jamri & Max Little

The Dine cooked in different types of stoves than we do today. They used hot stones, clay ovens, and fire places. They cooked meat on open fires and they cooked corn cakes on hot stones.

One delicious recipe Navajos enjoyed is fried bread. You can try making it with these ingredients: 2 Quarts of vegetable oil 3 cups of flour 1 tablespoon of baking powder 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1 cup of water. Even though the stoves the Dine used were different than ours their food surely tasted mouth watering.

Navajos stored their food in little hogans called lodges.That was their refrigeration in that time. Another way they would preserve food would be sun drying it. Inside the lodges they kept berries, corn, and meat. They smoked meat to preserve it. Water was stored in homemade baskets lined with a gummy substance so the water wouldn't fall through. They had many creative ways to store food.