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The Sporkful

Reheat: These Chefs Want You To Talk Politics At Dinner

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Tunde Wey learned to cook at home with his family in Nigeria. Sean Sherman grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Today they're both using food to explore politics and educate diners about the world beyond the dinner table.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey friends, Dan here with another reheat, and this one comes to the request of one of our listeners, Judith.

0:06.8

Hi, Sporkful Team. This is Judith from San Francisco. I have a reheat suggestion for the episode with the Sioux chef, Sean Sherman, founder of the restaurant, Owanmi, in Minneapolis. I was there last summer and I really, really enjoyed the

0:23.1

food. And also it made me realize how little I know about indigenous food, indigenous cooking in the

0:29.0

United States. As far as I know, he's one of the few people with a restaurant that really focuses on

0:34.5

pre-colonial food. And I thought that was really inspiring so I'm looking forward

0:40.6

to this episode well Judith here you go this is our 2018 episode with Sean Sherman also known as

0:45.8

the Sioux Chef that's S-I-O-U-X as in the native American tribe this one also features the writer

0:51.6

artist and chef Tunday Way Sean and Tunday are both using food to

0:55.3

highlight larger political issues, and they're part of a long tradition of bringing food and politics

0:59.2

together. Now, there's an episode you want us to pull out of the deep freezer and reheat. Do what

1:03.6

Judith did. Drop us a line. Send me an email or voice memo to hello at sporkful.com. Include your first name, location, which episode you'd like us to reheat and why.

1:13.3

Thank you, Judith, and to everyone, enjoy.

1:16.0

This episode of the Sporkful contains explicit language.

1:19.9

I mean, when I was growing up,

1:20.9

we used to watch a lot of European and American television

1:24.5

and all the ads for food were like burgers, fries, chicken nuggets.

1:30.3

This is chef and writer Tunday Way. He was born and raised in Nigeria. He came to the U.S. when he was 16.

1:36.6

All I wanted to do as soon as I got here was to have a burger.

1:40.5

And when you arrived, that was the first thing that after i yeah i was like you take me to

1:45.3

take me to your leader at macdonald's is what i said for real i was disappointed

1:56.8

and you were like we need to open a Nigerian restaurant up in here. Yeah, we need to fix this stat.

2:02.4

Now, Tunei is 34.

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