Fry Bread House

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Best native food ever!! Love the atmosphere of the restaurant.

Fry Bread House - Where Everyone Lives in Hominy

I've lived in AZ most of 35 years. I find two distinct strata of humankind here - people who've lived here more than one generation and get along pretty good with most other multi-generational Arizonans no matter their heritage. Then there are newcomers seeking warm weather and a.John Wayne spirit who are not tolerant of others who look or speak differently. Some are rabidly opinionated.

Archaeologists and other scientists keep pushing the timeline back when humans arrived on this continent - definitely 16,000 years, maybe 21,000.

O'odham means "people" Tohono means "desert." Until the 19th century, thousands successfully farmed, gathered and hunted the dryer parts of the Sonoran desert. The Akimel "river" O'odham people of the Gila and Salt rivers welcomed the Spaniards and added wheat to their crop list. When the Army, Mormon Battalion, railroad surveyors, miners and American overland travelers arrived, the O'odham people welcomed, watered, fed and rested these desert-blasted travelers with their ancient and modern cuisine.

FBH is a genuine Arizona Tohono eatery featuring that most delicious of reservation survival foods - fry bread. You the weary traveler, after a hard day shopping, working or hanging out are invited to partake in Sonoran indigenous excellence.

Native American people are generally humble, profoundly practical, and often artistic. I know a man who went seeking petrified wood in Navajo Country. He was successful, returning to his mother-in-law's hogan with quite a bit of rock-wood. Her response, "Why did you waste your truck, time and gas picking up rocks? Why didn't you bring me some firewood?"

The Fry Bread House is kind of that.

You can add a variety of fillings or eat it plain, supplement it with red or plain hominy, or have your meal wrapped up in chumuth - O'odham thin flour tortillas cooked on a very hot farm cultivation disk. Yum.

Today I had a chumuth squash and corn burrito. I also often eat the Chumuth salad - taco salad in everyday language.

So if you tolerate the new ans selicious, stop by.