Nephi Craig

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419 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 25 Jul

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Broadway legend André De Shields / Apache Chef Nephi Craig · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

And that grows into these food traditions that, you know, are a part of our reality today.

So as I teach it, I teach it in a way that hopefully can promote responsibility and food choices, not to take it away, but to be aware.

Well, I'll put it this way.

For major American holidays like Thanksgiving, everyday staples like turkey, corn and squash and cranberries, those are all important indigenous foods.

And when people ask me what recipes or what ways do we prepare native foods differently or the question comes up, how come I haven't heard of a Native American restaurant or why are there no Native American cookbooks?

I usually will say, well, you've been eating Native American foods and cuisine since as long as you can remember.

It's just that the stories are not told.

All of American cuisine, every region in the United States is built on the landscapes or the ancestral terroir of Native American foods and food traditions.

So you can say Boston baked beans, barbecue.

In the American Southwest, there's companion planting and dry farming, the hunting and fishing and agricultural bounty of the Northwest.

All of these landscapes inform our diets as everyday Americans.

So when we think about how we prepare different ingredients, I think it's pretty straightforward and simple.

We like to roast them, simmer them, turn them into pies just like everyone else sometimes.

But Native foods have been there the whole time.

Yeah, the Salt River Indian Reservation.

There were a lot of Natives on campus, just none in the culinary program.

Things like risotto.

The weirdest one was vichyssoise.

Hearing all the terms like mirepoix.

Hearing like, I didn't know what a bistro meant.

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