Join First Americans Museum, 39 Restaurant and Chef Crystal Wahpepah (Kickapoo) at 2 pm on March 28 to celebrate the chef's first cookbook, A FEATHER AND A FORK: 125 Intertribal Dishes from an Indigenous Food Warrior. A FEATHER AND A FORK offers a reconnection to the foodways that have nourished Indigenous people for generations through ancestral ingredients and contemporary cuisine.
Taste some of Chef Wahpepah's favorite recipes from the book while engaging in meaningful conversation with the chef and novelist Tommy Orange (Cheyenne & Arapaho) about food sovereignty, revitalizing Indigenous cuisine, and honoring the ingredients that sustain both body and land.
Founder of Wahpepah’s Kitchen in Oakland—the first Native woman-owned restaurant in California—Chef Wahpepah is an inductee into the Native American Almanac, serves as a U.S. State Department culinary ambassador, was a finalist for the James Beard Emerging Chef Award, and has appeared on National Geographic's Queens, CBS’s The Dish, and Food Network's Chopped and Beating Bobby Flay.