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The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
ISBN
978-0-8166-9979-7 (1ed, hardcover)

The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen is a

Oglala Lakota chef who was born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and is currently based in South Minneapolis. Sherman opened an Indigenous cuisine restaurant within the Water Works park development project overlooking Saint Anthony Falls and the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis in 2021.[1][2][3]

The cookbook advocates use of

diabetes and other health issues which are endemic on Indian reservations and among Native people.[4][5]

Format

Recipes are grouped by where the ingredients are obtained, including 'Fields and Gardens', 'Prairies and Lakes' and 'The Indigenous Pantry.' Informative sidebars cover topics ranging from the difference between terminology, to ingredient information, to the noble way to hunt. Commonly-held information such as the Three Sisters ingredients of corn, beans and squash; and the unique, crucial aspects of hominy[6] is enhanced with additional science/cooking/diet aspects based on Sherman's extensive research.[7][8]

Sherman researched the foods and cooking methods extensively, using published sources as well as personal interviews with family members and others in his tribe in Pine Ridge, and principles of ethnobotany. The food-related disruptions of colonialism – including the additions of white flour, sugar, dairy and fat – are stripped away, replaced by food that utilizes regional ingredients to create an empowering diet.[4][9][10]

Context

While the health issues facing Native people are extensively researched

Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes from the Upper Midwest by Heid E. Erdrich in 2013.[17] Other parts of the movement include the 2006 television series called Seasoned With Spirit: A Native Cook’s Journey with Loretta Barrett Oden,[18] organizations like Native Seeds/SEARCH and the International Institute of Indigenous Science-Indigenous Permaculture, health systems focused on Native populations, and various groups focusing on sustainable agriculture such as the USDA[19]
and the Land Stewardship Project.

Reception

"There are cookbooks from which one simply cooks the recipes, and cookbooks like Chef Sherman’s, from which one learns how and why to cook," Eric Patterson notes in a positive review, calling the recipes a means to the end of reclaiming the history and culture of indigenous peoples.[7]

Sherman's book–part textbook, part cookbook–tells the story of growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. It includes Sherman's dismissal of frybread as simply not good enough, given all that had been part of his people's diets before, and all that is available now–and how people in other parts of the world had retained their original, healthy diets.[20][21]

The book won a James Beard Award in 2018.[22]

References

  1. ^ Grumdahl, Dara Moskowitz (September 15, 2017). "Sioux Chef Lands a First Home: Water Works – The Mississippi River falls, where Minneapolis began, have always been an important center of Native American life, now they're getting a legit Native American restaurant". Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  2. ^ Janzer, Cinnamon (July 19, 2021). "Sean Sherman's First Brick-and-Mortar Restaurant Is a Tribute to Indigenous Foodways". Food & Wine. Merideth. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
  3. ^ Hagen, Brad (August 3, 2021). "Sioux Chef's Owamni Restaurant Opens". The Circle. and "Decolonized menu at Owamni by the Sioux Chef". Indian Country Today. Maven. August 26, 2021. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
  4. ^ a b Walhout, Hannah (October 2, 2017). "The Pine Ridge-born chef is the author of the new cookbook 'The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen". Food & Wine. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  5. Indian Country Today
    . Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  6. ^ Flanagan, Marie (April 22, 2011). "'Native Farmers Gather to Protect Seeds'". NorthCentral SARE. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  7. ^ a b Patterson, Eric. "The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen". forewordreviews.com. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  8. Indian Country Today
    . Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  9. ^ Ralat, Jose R. (October 26, 2017). "'Recipes from The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen'". Cowboys & Indians. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  10. ^ Sherman, Sean (October 18, 2017). "' The Sioux Chef is Reclaiming North America's Indigenous Cuisine'". Civil Eats. Retrieved December 30, 2017. As my team and I conduct research and come to understand the components of an indigenous food system that includes farming through permaculture, hunting and fishing, foraging for wild foods, preservation through canning, producing salt/fat/sugar, and studying ethno-oceanography, we can both rebuild our cultures and create a food system that showcases and solidifies our true identities. We will realize how unique and special our homelands are and become the answers to our ancestors' prayers.
  11. ^ "'Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation Report'". Native American Community Development Institute. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  12. ^ Capps, Robert (July 1, 1996). "'TYPE 2 DIABETES CONTINUES TO PLAGUE INDIAN RESERVATIONS, NEW HOPES ARE SCARCE'". “DiabetesHealth”. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  13. NYT
    ’’. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  14. ^ "'Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest". Portage District Library. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  15. ^ "Foods of the Americas: Native Recipes and Traditions". Oyate. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  16. ^ Batz, Bob (March 3, 2011). "'Foods of the Americas: Native Recipes and Traditions'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  17. Indian Country Today
    . Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  18. ^ "'Seasoned With Spirit: A Native Cook's Journey with Loretta Barrett Oden'". PBS. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  19. USDA
    . Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  20. ^ Lawler, Christa (November 22, 2017). "' What did my ancestors eat': Sean Sherman's cookbook The Sioux Chef is a return to from-the-land, pre-colonialization foods'". Duluth News Tribune. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  21. ^ "' The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen"'". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  22. ^ "'Sioux Chef' cookbook wins James Beard Award". Minnesota Public Radio. April 28, 2018.

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