Travel alongside Cook’s Country’s Editorial Director Bryan Roof as he explores the communities and cuisines that make up the great American dinner table. In this episode, he travels to downtown Minneapolis with Toni Tipton-Martin to visit Sean Sherman’s modern Indigenous restaurant: Owamni.
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SO much amazing food in Vancouver, restaurants from the whole world; Japan, Iran, China, Brazil, Jamaica, Thailand, India, Portugal, Palestine, Germany, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Lebanon, Greece, etc… everything… except the people that lived right here…
A somber moment
If you do not have The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen cookbook, you are missing out, because, especially me with little knowledge of indigenous cuisine, this was a great place to start filled with ingredients and combinations I have never used before, and with inspiration through background narration to guide you along the way on why they were used. What an amazing chef to learn from.
Alternative title: "White Guy Fails to Understand Our Relationship with Flora and Fauna"
Love love this so much !
this is beautiful. such a thoughtful piece that highlights how food can hold so much meaning behind it AND be delicious!
Great work here. I'm looking up NATIFS market right now.
One of the things I've always loved about living in a nation of immigrants, especially in a big city, is how easy it is to find ingredients for authentic recipes from around the world. I've been to Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Mexican, Thai, Korean, Puerto Rican, Ukrainian and Polish grocery stores, all of them less than an hour away from my apartment. The people who run these stores are dedicated to carrying on the traditions of their homelands, sourcing ingredients from far away and making their mark on American cuisine.
Besides that, the food found in our supermarkets comes from industrial farms across the country and across the border, grown on land that has been altered beyond recognition to allow non-native and genetically engineered plants to grow. It's hard for me to imagine cooking without this system of perpetual bounty.
But one of the sad results of this—something that had never occurred to me before watching this video—is that the food we eat has little connection to the soil we stand on. When we stole this land we did our best to scrape away everything that makes it unique. What we produce isn't considered intrinsically good; it's forever in competition with the "Old World" and often found wanting. Wisconsin Parmesan is a poor imitation of real Parmigiano Reggiano. "California Champagne" is a fraud.
Yet look at these Indigenous chefs and growers who see that this land is perfect as it is, who celebrate it rather than tear it apart, who find inspiration in the cedar that grows down the street. How lucky we are that Sean Sherman is willing to share his vision with us.
THIS IS THE CONTENT WE NEED. One of my favorites of the ATK video 'collection'. No recipe but fantastic information. I know no one in Minneapolis but I now want to go and eat at Owamni… I'll see if I can make it happen. 😎
I would love to learn about the indigenous edible plants. Does that garden program have a book, or videos available?
I've been pulling mallows out of my garden for years, and had no idea i could eat them!
This is fascinating, thank you for this segment
Say no to the communist propaganda cheering on eating bugs. They're reaching so hard to get people to eat something naturally revolting, with evidence the chitinous shells are harmful to humans.
Love that ethnobotnist!
I think I'll stick with my traditional THANKSGIVING fare while I celebrate everything that is great about America. #Trump2024
Linda Blackelk!! As in the black forager Alexis Nicole's friend??
This video is awesome!
I've been watching his menu through the seasons with my mouth watering, and filled with astonishment.
In all this time, I've been amazed that I could eat everything on the menu! ALL of the foods that my body produces antibodies to are from somewhere other than North America!
My plan is to make reservations for several days of meals about a year in advance, as I was directed, then find a nearby hotel, and fulfill a life dream by eating to exhilaration.
This is one of the best videos you've made. I learned so much.
I hope to do 3 sisters succotash.
This video was amazing and very enlightening! His restaurant is on my bucket list!
I love this! I'm 27% Native American Indian. I know little about my food culture and I love this video. Keep up the wonderful work and kudos to Sean.
I want that education!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYNDdN5UFy4 Sean's YouTube channel.
Not to raise over such a nice video, but is getting cedar branches from right outside an urban restaurant a good idea? What if they have been sprayed with chemical treatments?
This was GREAT.
Thank you.
An inspiring episode. Beautiful. Thank you, made my day.