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Wu´taka (Blue Corn Mush)
A traditional Navajo/Hopi breakfast meal I had out on our States road trip, except the one I tried to eat also had a thick solidified crunchy layer on top. The waitress told me afterwards that she normally adds a load of sugar to hers at home that makes it a little tastier. It also came at a luke warm room temp that added to the overall feeling of nausea. I only managed half a bowl, before asking for a portion of toast. Still I always feel that if you have an opportunity to try something unusual you have to take it. I also tried some of the Navajo frybread and that was really good. The Hopi Cultural Centre serve them as a type of taco and we also had a couple made by a Navajo woman on her range in the Canyon de Chelly.
Anyway, although it´s blue(ish?) I don´t see it becoming a a fan favorite down at the Shay
HEALTH WARNING - Don´t Try And Make This At Home!
Readers Comments
It's like they started making blue corn tortillas and stopped halfway.
Or it's like this was attempt #1, they realized how bad it was and said, "What if we fried it and made it into chips?
This is much better than it looks. Especially with stadium sauce.
I hope you haven't invested in any Hopi ear candles, Vick....?
(Though they may taste better than the Blue Corn Mess)
Well done on your trip Vick and giving the food a try. When we were at the Canyon de Chelly, we saw one of those too (woman on range selling food) but it was late in our tour and didn't have a chance to stop. Frybread sounds good.
We met the two women selling the frybread at the Canyon de Chelly as they were cousins of our Navajo tour guide Adam Teller. He was telling us that a lot of the bones and belongings of the Navajo were dug up and removed by so called trading posts (some of which are still around today) and when they were prevented by law from digging up the grounds the national park service sent in archeologists to do it instead. The Navajo have been trying to get these bones back for probably over a century and have won court cases in their favour for the return of the bones which the park authorities have been refusing to do. Recently this has kind of escalated with the National Park trying to shut down Navajo souvenir sellers in and around the park and also the frybread sellers for selling their bread in únhygenic circumstances. One of the souvenir sellers was then shot dead by a park ranger on the premise he had a knife (a piece of wood with a nail on it that he used to make etchings) and was shot in the back as he tried to tun away. From what I understand he was also quite young, a teenager or in his early 20´s. So it is all quite tense there right now. The park service had closed off all routes around the park to tourists, although you could still go into the Canyon with a Navajo guide.