"Chefs' Conversation: Celebrating Healthy Native Foods" is a lively conversation featuring chefs Terri Ami (Hopi/Navajo), Velvet Button (Tohono O'odham), Loretta Barrett Oden (Citizen Band Potawatomi) and Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz (Xicana/Tiwa) as they celebrate the extraordinary bounty of foods indigenous to the Americas. They discuss sustainable farming practices, food sovereignty, and Native American culinary traditions and values. Learn about the varied and nutritious elements of Native cuisine with these accomplished chefs whose passion for cooking was inspired by their heritage and commitment to delicious, healthy eating. Chef Oden, host of the Emmy award-winning PBS series "Seasoned with Spirit," moderates. This symposium is part of the museum's annual Living Earth Festival, which showcases the best of traditional knowledge and traditions to promote sustainable living. This program was webcast and recorded in the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on July 15, 2016.
Video Duration:
1 hr 27 min 12 sec
YouTube Keywords:
Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
