Chris Rufo on the need for a balance between populist and elite politics...
Chris Rufo on the need for a balance between populist and elite politics...
Ottawa must borrow to rebuild our military: J.L. Granatstein for Inside Policy

An Indigenous Restaurants Special Ingredient Mother Jones [Video]

Categories
First Nations News

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.

The world’s first Ohlone restaurant is nestled in a lush outdoor space at the edge of the University of California, Berkeley, campus. Cafe Ohlone/mak-’amham (“our food” in the Chochenyo Ohlone language) tempts customers with soft-boiled quail eggs, black oak acorn soup, and chia-seed flour brownies. Also, Cowgirl Creamery cheese with herb bread. “Some people ask why these foods are on the menu, even though our ancestors didn’t have that,” says co-founder Vincent Medina. “It’s because Ohlone people like it.”

Part of a growing movement of Indigenous restaurants dedicated to reclaiming cultural heritage and educating the public, Cafe Ohlone opened in 2018 with the goal of bringing oṭṭoy(repair) to a place where the Ohlone were long denied sovereignty. Kickapoo chef Crystal Wahpepah runs Wahpepah’s Kitchen in Oakland, and there’s Mitsitam Cafe at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian …

Trouble at the Canada-US border? Alex Dalziel and Jamie Tronnes
Trouble at the Canada-US border? Alex Dalziel and Jamie Tronnes
Unfortunately for Canadian consumers and creators, the Online Streaming Act is performing exactly as predicted: Peter Menzies in the Hub