![]() ![]() And we should really just focus this time to be together and to be thankful for each other and to celebrate with food, and why not celebrate with Indigenous food to begin with, you know? I really believe that we could do a lot better and we should get far away from a lot of these plays of Indigenous and colonizers coming together and having a wonderful dinner because it just never really happened. I wrote a story for Time magazine a few years ago that gets shared a lot during Thanksgiving time that just really explores how this curriculum around forcing people to believe and uplift this colonial history of the United States that's just so dismissive of the intense violence that happened against Indigenous peoples, and I really feel like we need to drop that narrative completely when it comes to pilgrims and Natives coming together and celebrating, because it really has nothing to do with that at all. I really feel like we need to drop that narrative completely when it comes to pilgrims and Natives coming together and celebrating, because it really has nothing to do with that at all. I just have a lot of issues, I guess, with growing up with the Commodity Food Program and having to eat a lot of powdered milk with very dry cereal in the morning and literally putting pure corn syrup on everything just to make things taste better. I just remember a lot of over-sugared fruits and syrups and I remember a lot of over-salted vegetables in cans and meat that was not ideal. ![]() And for me, as a chef, looking back, I would say most of it's not very pleasant. like government powdered milk, and government cereals, and government juices in cans, and fruits in cans, and vegetables in cans, and meats in cans - things like beef with juices and pork with juices and salmon - all canned stuff. I grew up with Commodity Food Programs, so when I was growing up, we just got a lot of staples from the government. So still today, it's really tough to see any kind of nutritional access and we just really want to help turn that tide. And, you know, there's only a couple of fast food restaurants on the reservation, and that's pretty much it. Today there's more gas stations where people can get some food. So there's very little nutritional food access out there. When I was growing up on Pine Ridge, we didn't have any restaurants and we had one grocery store to basically the size of Connecticut. On the lack of access to healthy, regional food for Indigenous communities "We're trying to evolve the food into the future," he says. Sherman says cooking with native ingredients does not mean serving antiquated food. ![]() On purchasing produce and meat from Indigenous producers So some people do get very emotional when they come into the restaurant and experience this for the first time. ![]() We should have Native restaurants in every single city to showcase the amazing cultures that are all over the place and the resiliency of Indigenous peoples that are still thriving here today everywhere. So it's a whole experience and it's something that's super special and unique. I've seen a lot of people who just get really struck by it, especially Indigenous people, because it's not typical to be able to go someplace and see our Indigenous foods on the menu and see the Native names on the menu, see Native people cooking the food and serving the food and listening to Native music coming out of the speakers and just the whole vibe. ![]()
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