Fry Bread Nation: The Birth of a ‘Native’ Cuisine
“All the elder women came looking for us,” says Jacobs, who together with Chandra took second place in the competition. “These Cheyenne and Arapaho women came saying, ‘Where are the boys who can cook fry bread? I didn’t know boys could cook fry bread.’” He adds, “It was a compliment because we learned to cook it from women.” They used a recipe passed from Jacobs’s grandmother to his mother.
