Mitsitam, Washington, D.C.

I've mentioned Mitsitam, NMAI's American Indian foods cafeteria, a few times before. While I didn't eat there again this weekend, I did wander through the serving area and snap a few pictures.

Here are some foods from the Northwest Coast area of the United States. They have lots of seafood here, including oysters, salmon, and fish wrapped in leaves and steamed.

In the Great Plains area, they have a lot of things targeted more for the children, featuring bison (a/k/a buffalo) burgers and Indian fry bread. They also have several stews here.

One really tasty area is the South American station, where it's like eating what most Americans would probably call "Mexican" food. One of the things I like from here are the big, fat, tamale-like things they do with masa and stewed pork.

The Northeastern Woodlands station always has roast turkey and roast venison (though the venison was absent this week!), plus things like succotash, clam chowder, and "Indian pudding" made from corn meal and maple syrup. This week, they are having a strawberry festival in honor of the strawberry moon (which actually I think is already past).

Here's another shot of northeastern food, this one particularly showing the whitefish with green onions and corn.