173) Sean Sherman: Revitalizing Native American foods and re-identifying North American cuisine
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Sean Sherman is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, the award-winning author of The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen, and the founder and CEO Chef of The Sioux Chef, a team of chefs, ethnobotanists, food preservationists, adventurers, foragers, caterers, event planners, artists, musicians, food truckers and food lovers who are committed to revitalizing Native American foods and re-identifying North American cuisine. Sean's cookbook, The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen, has received numerous accolades, including the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Best American Cookbook.
As another key part of his work, Sean's nonprofit, North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS), is dedicated to promoting Indigenous foodways education and facilitating Indigenous food access.
In this podcast episode, Sean sheds light on why it is that in the United States, we can find restaurants of cuisines from all over the world, and barely any restaurants of Native American cuisines; how the Standard American Diet came to be so homogenous and disconnected from what's actually available within the diverse bioregions across the country; and more.
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| 1:09.3 | This indigenous food sovereignty movement that's happening across the U.S. right now is lighting |
| 1:14.1 | up in tribes all over the place because we see the true value of it and the true value of |
| 1:18.5 | going back to foods that are particularly about them. |
| 1:21.4 | And that's really what our work is because we believe if you can control your food, |
| 1:25.1 | then you can control your destiny. |
| 1:28.8 | That was Sean Sherman, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, an award-winning chef and the founder |
| 1:35.0 | and CEO of the Sioux Chef, which is a team of chefs, ethnobotanists, food preservationists, |
| 1:40.7 | adventures, foragers, caterers, event planners, artists, musicians, food truckers, and food lovers were committed to revitalizing Native American foods and re-identifying North American cuisine. |
| 1:52.0 | As another key part of his work, Sean's nonprofit North American traditional indigenous food systems is dedicated to promoting indigenous foodways education and facilitating |
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