Authored in collaboration with Kate Nelson and Kristin Donnelly, Sean Sherman’s new book Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America has generated widespread and exceptional enthusiasm, generating press coverage in The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, the Minnesota Star Tribune, Vogue, and other publications. Sherman was interviewed on “The Daily Show” in promoting a culinary masterpiece that Robin Wall Kimmerer proclaimed “an expression of Indigenous identity and a pathway for reconnection to the land” and Mark Bittman declared “belongs in the kitchen of anyone who’s serious about some of the most important roots of ‘American’ cooking.”
Update, December 3, 2025: Turtle Island has been named one of the 14 best cookbooks of the year by The New York Times.
