Hey Eveyone,
I thought I might talk about food this time. We have not talked about food before, just a little on the strawberrry thanksgiving post. The summer for the Wampanoag would of been all about fish and shellfish for food. At This time of year you would of had just a little corn for seed left, and you would of used that seed for planting.
This picture has a striped bass roasting over the fire in the homesite. Fish and shellfish would of been something you ate alot of in the summer time. This fish is roasting on a spit or a sharp stick over the fire.
We could of made a big fire and spread out the coal’s and raped the striped bass with clay and let it dry, then bake the fish in clay on the coals too, mm so good done this way!.
Shell fish would of been smoked to save it for winter time. In the winter you would of moved in land away from the ocean and smokeing shell fish would keep it all winter long.
That’s a little about food I will post more about food as we go here hope this gives you a little look at food, I promiss more to come on this.
thanks
Tim
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Ok so is there some secret to cooking bluefish? I have had it before and it was not that good tasting.
I had a sample down at the homesite and it was really good.
I thought you might like it this way, thats why I gave it to you, when you cook fish over a open fire you have to know how to cook it ,
mm so good roasted over an open fire like that yes good!