it is a comfort food, for others including some chefs and some Native community members, it represents colonization and a period of time in history that is traumatic." The current period she calls "New Native American," characterized by Native American chefs returning to the pre-contact ingredients and recipes. Frank calls potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, and vanilla the "magic eight" ingredients that were found and used only in the Americas before 1492 and were taken via the Columbian exchange back to the Old World, dramatically transforming the cuisine there. According to Frank, Unlike some Native American chefs and cookbook authors, she believes that others developing recipes for and cooking Native American cuisine is not a problem if Native American producers, such as wild rice harvesters, are benefitting. Her recipes have a vegetable-forward approach, and she has said she prefers to develop menus focussed primarily on foods from the Pre-Contact period and some from the First Contact period. She believes foods from the Government Issue period created health issues such as high rates of diabetes and prefers not to use them often. Personal life Frank lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Bibliography Taco Table (2013) Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations (2002) Native American Cooking (1995) References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American people of Palestinian-Jewish descent American people of Spanish-Jewish descent American people of Turkish-Jewish descent American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent‎ American women chefs American photographers American anthropologists University of New Mexico alumni James Beard Foundation Award winners American cookbook writers Writers from New Mexico Writers from New York City American chefs Institute of American Indian Arts faculty Brooks Institute alumni American women academics 21st-century American women