Puffy, golden-fried dough served savoury, piled with beans, beef, lettuce and cheese as an Indian taco, or sweet, dusted with powdered sugar and honey.

Fry bread carries a complicated history, born of the rations of flour, sugar and lard issued to Native communities during forced relocation, and turned into a resilient staple. In Phoenix the Tohono O'odham-rooted Fry Bread House made it a citywide dish and won a James Beard America's Classics award in 2012. Eaten savoury as an Indian taco or sweet with sugar, it is a Native American signature of the Valley.

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