The Four Sisters: Keeping Family Traditions Alive – Recipes from The Pueblo

The Four Sisters is a collection of recipes and their stories from Norma Naranjo’s life in Ohkay Owingeh, one of the Eight Indigenous Tewa Pueblos in Northern New Mexico. She started The Feasting Place in 2000 to share traditional cooking with friends and loved ones. Now that group of friends and loved ones has expanded and includes people from all over the world!

The Feasting Place is located in Norma’s cozy, vibrant pueblo home on The Pueblo’s tribal lands and offers a view of the beautiful Sangre de Cristo Mountains rising above the cooking ovens, or hornos, in her backyard. Hornos are traditional adobe ovens where Pueblo people do their baking, especially for feast days and other traditional holidays. The baking and cooking done in the outside hornos, a place to share old family recipes and bring family and friends together for memorable times.

The Feasting Place brings hopes of sharing culture and tradition, creating a lasting connection of earth and spirit. The Four Sisters is really what food is all about: not only does food nourish the body, but it feeds our spirit, especially in the company of loved ones. Please enjoy this book of recipes and their stories as much as Norma has loved putting them together for
you.