The Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition is excited to announce "Celebrating Indigenous Women Chefs". This first-of-its-kind webinar series highlights the culinary expertise of Indigenous women through seven LIVE cooking demonstrations. Join us each month as the featured guest chefs share their skills, knowledge, wisdom, and recipes.
Crystal Wahpepah is an enrolled member of the Kickapoo Nation of Oklahoma. She was born and raised alongside a multi-tribal community in Oakland, CA where she learned Ancestral foodways as well as the formalities of running her own catering and food business. She is the first Native Chef to appear on Food Networks and Chopped. Crystal’s passion to create food by honoring the origins and land of each ingredient, as well as cultivating connection to Indigenous farmers and land stewards makes her a unique game-changer in the food industry. One of her clients says, “I take my time eating this because I know where it comes from.” Watch the horizon closely for Crystal and Wahpepah’s Kitchen, as she takes Ancestral foodways and brings them to the forefront with laughter, joy, playfulness, honor, respect, gratitude, reciprocity and collaboration. Crystal and Wahpepah’s Kitchen are the embodiment of how food can heal communities and society at large.
May 2021 featured Crystal Wahpepah will provide a culinary demonstration. Guest Chef Elena Terry (Ho-Chunk) will join Crystal in a conversation on cuisine and culture.