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Leah Prisque is responsible for Indigenous and community relations at Growcer, a cool company that turns shipping containers into farms. She helps expand this idea to Indigenous communities, some of which are extremely remote and located in food deserts. In… Read more: E91: Leah Prisque – Working for Indigenous community through Growcer

I met Lamar Minthorn (Umatilla) of Tutuilla True during my first trip to Portland at the Northwest Native Economic Summit. He’s an incredibly positive person and an obvious hard worker. In this episode you’ll learn about how one tribal fisherman… Read more: E90: Lamar Fairley-Minthorn – The aspects of being blessed

In this episode, I talk with Ojibwe chef Bryce Stevenson who is also the owner of Miijim in La Pointe, Wisconsin, an island in Lake Superior. He’s also a pretty talented poet whose work is included in the zine “Heart… Read more: E89: Bryce Stevenson – Actual  Shifts in the Wind

The “Heart Rations: Indigenous Food Poetry” zine is out (has been out)! It’s a collection of poems about… you guessed it… Indigenous food. In this episode, I talk with a couple of folks whose work appears in the zine; Cliff… Read more: E88: Heart Rations

I’m pretty glad I found out about Nikki Tsabetsaye (Zuni) and her knife sharpening skills via a Facebook post that was shared across my way. She’s a pretty awesome person and her family owns Major Market grocery store in Zuni,… Read more: E87: Nikki Tsabetsaye – Sharp Knives

From Toasted Sister and Friends By: Andi Murphy / Toasted Sister Podcast Gift shopping can either be a chill day orchestrated by a well thought-out list and fueled by three $7 caffeine drinks or three agonizing weeks with non-starter ideas… Read more: Native Foodie Holiday Gift Guide

In this episode I talk with Natalie Benally (Diné) about her film, “Indigenize the Plate” at a screening hosted by Tiny Grocer ABQ in Old Town Albuquerque. We talk about her journey to Peru for the film and how that… Read more: E86: “Indigenize the Plate” by Natalie Benally +LIVE RECORDING+

Cherokee chef Nico Albert Williams is just trying to make some corn soup. She’s the executive director of the Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness in Tulsa (grand opening Sept. 14) and the vocalist for a badass doom/sludge metal band, Medicine Horse… Read more: E85: Nico Albert Williams – “Give myself some relief”

From the big city of Chicago, I bring this episode featuring 2023 James Beard Award Best Chef of the Northeast, Sherry Pocknett (Wampanoag). We talk about her win, her battle with cancer and how her past shaped the chef she… Read more: E84: Sherry Pocknett – “Not Your Average” James Beard Award winner

Things get a little switched up in this episode. This time, my sister, Alisha Murphy, economist for the Navajo Nation Division of Economic Development, takes over an interview with Victoria Largo, new owner of Victoria’s Pizza brick-and-mortar restaurant in Crownpoint,… Read more: E83: Victoria’s victorious pizzeria  

In this episode, I talk with Becky Webster (Oneida Nation), or Rebecca M. Webster, as it’s written on her new book “In Defense of Sovereignty: Protecting the Oneida Nation’s Inherent Right to Self-Determination.” She does a lot of passion work… Read more: E82: Ukwakhwa – Oneida foods with Becky Webster

She’s beauty, she’s grace, she’s got a couple of hours to butcher a sheep and make three dishes over an open fire. The Miss Navajo Nation Pageant is one of the most unique contests that happens every year as part… Read more: E81: Miss Navajo Nation – “From the corral to the table”

How can I say this without sounding egotistical? … This episode is about me; the creator, producer and host of this show. Yes! It is. In this episode, my sister, Alisha Murphy, interviews me and I get to share more… Read more: E80: Andi Murphy – “… until the day you die.”

Live at the 4th Annual New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival, Sept. 24, 2022In my first-ever live podcast recording, I talk with chef Ray Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo/Odawa), owner of Manko: Native American Fusion, Addie Lucero (Taos Pueblo), owner of Dancing… Read more: E79: Changing Culinary Narratives +LIVE RECORDING+

In this episode, I take you to the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s Reservation Economic Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s the largest annual conference focusing on Native economics. This year’s event included, for the first time, a… Read more: E78: “Food Sovereignty is Economic Sovereignty”

In this episode, I talk with Brett Maybee (Seneca) about corn, corn soup, corn wheels, radio stuff, music and then space-time. Brett is the host and producer of Gaënö’, a weekly radio program about Native music. His work is fascinating… Read more: E77: Brett Maybee – “Dare to imagine”

Millions of TV viewers watched chef Pyet DeSpain (Prairie Band Potawatomi, Mexican) beat out the competition on Gordon Ramsay’s new cooking show, “Next Level Chef” (March 2022). With her special brand of Indigenous fusion food, she was crowned the winner… Read more: E76: Pyet DeSpain — “Always and forever”

In this episode, I talk with Jacob Torres, a very proud New Mexican who, I think, has a very interesting life. He’s a technical and horticultural scientist at NASA and based at the NASA Kennedy Space Center and he’s working… Read more: E75: Jacob Torres — Space Chile Guy

In this episode, I finally talk with Loretta Barrett Oden, Potawatomi chef whose kind of responsible for helping pave the way for a lot of the Native food work you see today. She was a restaurant owner, a long-time teacher… Read more: E74: Loretta Barrett Oden — “Spoonful by spoonful”

I’ve been really digging Native poetry lately and I thought I’d gather a few poems about food. In this short episode, Native writers recite food poems about foreign foods, frybread, seeds and ancestral wisdom. Voices are: Tiffany Midge, Hunkpapa Lakota… Read more: E73: Food Poetry

(Lino cut print by Andi Murphy. Available for purchase here.) This is the death and food episode where I talk with Indigenous death doula, Chrystal Waban, about her work with Blackbird Medicines and the Indigenous Death Doula Collective and how… Read more: E72: The Death and Food Episode

Photos courtesy of Addie Lucero/Rio Grande Farm Park Honorable mention: Best podcast feature story in the 2021 National Native Media Awards in the professional II division. Do you know who picked the cabbage and celery you find at the grocery… Read more: E71: Indigenous Farmworkers – “Do your work no matter what other people say”

Cape Cod photo by Kristen Whyman. Thanksgiving is a lie. In this episode I talk with three Wampanoag women about Thanksgiving and how colonization effected their foodways. We’ll also talk about the awesome work they’re doing in their East coast… Read more: E70: The Thanksgiving Episode