Nephi Craig
speaker
419 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
Nephi Craig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Fresh Air · Best Of: Broadway legend André De Shields / Apache Chef Nephi Craig · 25 Jul 2026
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Yeah, it did.
I had no idea that the tomato was an indigenous cultivar growing up.
I think it's pretty common for a lot of people to feel that way.
And for me as a young kid, I was studying in culinary school and I came across this info that it was native to the Americas.
And it just brought this really big smile to my face.
I was like, wow, this tomato is not Italian.
It's native like me.
And that was empowering because as you're in cooking school, you're being taught all of these other world cuisines.
And as a Native American in Arizona, you don't really see yourself represented in really anything, let alone cookbooks and culinary school curriculum.
So that was a neat point of validation for me that grew into many other interests.
And Apaches.
And Apaches.
Well, acorns are very special because they're...
They can be eaten all over North America on the West Coast and on the East Coast and across the United States.
They have to be leached, of course, which is a process to pull out the real tannic bitterness from the acorns.
What makes our acorns special is that they don't necessarily have to be leached.
They suppose they could be, but they've always been harvested by our people themselves.
Along the Mogollon Rim in Arizona for thousands of years.
And they can be eaten right out of the shell.
They're ground up into powders and into like a yellow acorn flour.
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