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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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Gotta strengthen Native American culture already, dammit. Languages etc are way too underrepresented.
People forget not all natives are light skinned Paleo Siberians. There’s a such thing as soul food restaurants with plenty of Paleo American cuisines.
@Erik William Gober I guess it might be more of a perception of scale thing
That’s a good point. I’d like to try some Native American Indigenous Food
I think you missed the point here!
Yet modern medicine beats all their remedies lol
@Surferant666 Sometimes I’m sure that is the case, but yet they treat symptoms and not the disease. If the modern way was so great, they could and would provide actual cures, instead of lifelong treatments which insures constant customers.
@Remy Lebeau yes that is the biggest problem handing out pills for any minor crap when sometimes a good diet or wellbeing vourse would be much better
Okay, but why did no one laugh at his Indian restaurants joke? That was really funny
I caught that too. He was like “so anyways” because no one laughed lol
Cause he aint indian so it’s uncomfortable pretending to laugh along with a culture vulture pulling a warren on the audience
This is a “dot, not feather”-level crowd.
Many edible and medicinal “weeds” in my yard and the woods surrounding it.
I completely agree with him. It would be great to learn permaculture and seed saving and how to live sustainably.
Glad I live in Minneapolis. We’ll be trying your restaurant!
Very true I, I have never eaten at a native restaurant. Wish there was one around where I live
So true! I hope we can move forward with this. We so need to be better stewards to our land, and we need to help our indigenous first people to heal and find their way back to their roots.
This guy dropping burns casually is my favourite song tonight
I feel like Sean prepared for a 30 min talk and was told the day before he has only 18 min.
Mexican food is so far from spanish food that you could say it’s mostly native américain food. The basis of the Mexican nutrition is tortillas (from corn) and beans. Also tomatoes and chilis are used in most recipes. I guess it was adapted when certain animals were introduced to the continent like beef, chicken and pork, but the basis of it was pretty much there.
That sounds pretty terrible and bland.
@Remy Lebeau it isn’t
I’m native Alaskan, and our food was focused on wellness and preservation, very utilitarian. I believe it was the same for most northern tribes in the US. Thus, no cuisine was extracted. Not to say there wasn’t tasty foods, but to outsiders, it would be hard to stomach for most. It isn’t until you move more south, say Mexico, that you could start to find indigenous cousins. They had a lot more access to spices, plants, and materials that would lend itself to developing a cuisine, palatable for outsiders.
Okay I’m like I don’t know 10 minutes in and it’s still the pre ramble. I came here to find out about Indian cuisine and the first commenter is the is the only information I’m getting thank you for that. I’m going to have to turn this now cuz it’s just rambling
I hope this may reach out to all the people, I hope and I love his knowledge. I admired him! I really appreciate it . I learned it from my grand father, and his passion to plant fruits and veggies on a small backyard.
So valuable + important. Thank you, Sean for sharing this wisdom.
“Lawns are fucking stupid”. Holy crap do i love this guy
I love lying on my lawn and smelling the fresh smell of england
@Surferant666 That smell is wonderful, no doubt! Just that it hit close to home for me in California aka drought town
Lawns are fucking stupid…if you live in a Desert/Mediterranean climate
This is easily one of the best TED talks I’ve ever seen, and I’ve watched a lot. How Chef Sean is able to pack in so much painful, important history, and then end with such a hopeful and inspiring vision for a path forward is truly remarkable. I’m now a huge fan of this incredible humanitarian’s work. Bravo!