Actually, some Native American tribes were known for their eating of tree bark. The name Adirondack is an Iroquois exonym meaning “bark eaters.” Northern Scandinavians like the Sami and the Finns ate tree bark too. I don’t know how the Adirondack people ate their tree bark. The Sami and Finns dried theirs and ground it into a sort of coarse meal (not quite “flour”) which could be stored and cooked later.
In the Siege story, the Andy character introduces bark as a food, calling it “pine fries.” I’ve made pine fries several times, but not tried to make pine bark flour yet. I will put that on my list of things to try.
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