Why aren't there more Native American restaurants? | Sean Sherman

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🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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When you think of North American cuisine, do Indigenous foods come to mind? Chef Sean Sherman serves up an essential history lesson that explains the absence of Native American culinary traditions across the continent, highlighting why revitalizing Indigenous education sits at the center of a better diet and healthier relationship with the planet.

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:08.6	I'm your host, Elise Hu. Mexican food, Japanese food, Mediterranean, Chinese. There are so many parts of the world with amazing cuisine and dishes.
0:18.7	But where are Native American foods and dishes? Can you name a few?
0:23.9	All of American history begins with indigenous history, but as chef Sean Sherman points out,
0:30.0	we don't have a good sense of Native American food. In his 2020 archive talk, he takes us through
0:36.0	a history that led to the erasure of this kind of
0:39.1	cuisine and how to explore the richness and flavor of indigenous cuisine.
0:44.3	Yum.
0:45.2	Coming up after the break.
0:48.4	And now our TED Talk of the Day.
0:51.3	My name is Sean Sherman.
0:52.7	I am a chef.
0:53.7	I'm here to talk about Native American food.
0:56.3	I was born and raised in Pine Ridge in South Dakota, and our focus are on indigenous foods.
1:02.9	And, you know, it's been a really interesting journey so far. I started my company called the
1:07.1	Sioux Chef, S-I-O-U-X, so a little play on words. But it had come from quite a few years of
1:12.0	trying to research and understand because I kind of grew up in restaurants. I grew up in Pine Ridge.
1:17.4	I grew up in Spearfish and in South Dakota in the Black Hills, and I started working a lot of
1:21.7	touristy restaurants. And, you know, I had just a long career. So all through high school and college, I worked restaurants after college.
1:27.9	I moved to Minneapolis.
1:28.9	I became a chef at a really young age in the city.
1:31.4	And I've just been chefing for a long time.
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