Cherokee cookbook author and Native American food expert Johnnie Sue Myers will be at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville at 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 16, signing her new book, The Gathering Place: Traditional Cherokee Dishes, Wild Game Recipes & Preparation Tips and Southern Appalachian Cooking.

Myers’ cookbook contains recipes for traditional dishes such as Cherokee bean bread, apple stack cake and Indian tacos with fry bread. Myers also includes instructions on how to prepare bear, rabbit, raccoon, squirrel, groundhog and wild turkey.

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