James Beard

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James Beard, a bald white man in a suit, stands in his kitchen holding two baking pans.

A bronze bust of an Indigenous American figure sits in a kitchen, overlaid with sacks of rice marked with a green check and milk with sugar cubes crossed out.

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James Beard: Media

American culinary expert and cookbook author

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A bronze bust of an Indigenous American figure sits in a kitchen, overlaid with sacks of rice marked with a green check and milk with sugar cubes crossed out.

Bringing back Indigenous foods with Chef Sean Sherman

Using Native ingredients means cooking without dairy, wheat flour, and sugar.

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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James Beard, a bald white man in a suit, stands in his kitchen holding two baking pans.

James Beard

"James Beard; with two lights in our kitchen at stove," photographed by Paul Child,...

Photograph by Paul Child. © Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute (olvwork584799)

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