Mia Stansby: Healing through food, the Indigenous way – Vancouver Sun
July 13, 2018
I’m humbled chatting with Indigenous chef and former Top Chef Canada contender Rich Francis about reconciliation through sharing and connecting with Indigenous food. To me, it sounds more like acts of forgiveness.
Francis “cooks for reconciliation” in pop-ups and dinners across the country, has a TV show called Red Chef Revival and is writing a cookbook/memoir called Closing The Gap: Truth And Reconciliation Through Indigenous Foods.
“It’s connecting through food, making you more familiar with where we come from,” he says. “It has a way of healing our relationship with Canada, with other First Nations people, as well as generational trauma. It’s a culinary identity outside of cultural genocide. In a sense, we’re taking back Canadian ingredients, rediscovering them to reinvent with it.”
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