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An “inconvenient” cookbook about native California foodways

Writer Sara Calvosa Olson says that people often divide California into two sections: northern and southern. And consumers often have the impression that there are only three main types of meat, namely beef, chicken and pork.

Both perceptions are wrong, Sara says in her fascinating new cookbook, Chimi Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporar…