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Loving Soybeans w/ Chef & Farmer Ria Ibrahim

Loving Soybeans w/ Chef & Farmer Ria Ibrahim

Tagan Engel
PODCAST, RECIPE

Indonesian Chef and Farmer Ria Ibrahim shares on building loving relationship with soybeans through a multitude of methods to preserve and enjoy these sacred beans including as miso, tofu, and soy milk. As Farm to Table Director at Soul Fire Farm Ria brings deep cultural connections, love and spirit into her work to preserve the harvest for community, cook for programs, and teach cooking and foraging. She shares on all this as well as her journey to learn plants and fungus in a new land and passing on this love and knowledge to her daughter.

The Gift of Buffalo Creek Squash

The Gift of Buffalo Creek Squash

Tagan Engel
CT PUBLIC RADIO, PODCAST

SEASONED from CT Public Radio Tagan Engel speaks with Hi’ilei Hobart, a professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale, and Rebecca Salazar, a student seed keeper with the Yale Native American Cultural Center and the Yale Sustainable Food Project. They spoke at the Yale farm about their adventure this year - growing and saving seeds of the special Haudenosaunee Buffalo Creek squash. These two indigenous women also speak about the importance they feel in connecting with indigenous and ancestral foods such as the three sisters: beans, corn and squash - to counter the challenges of colonization.

Chef Sherry Pocknett & Rachel Sayet

Chef Sherry Pocknett & Rachel Sayet

Tagan Engel
CT PUBLIC RADIO, PODCAST

SEASONED from CT Public Radio This hour, Rachel Sayet, an Indigenous educator and member of the Mohegan Tribe, talks with James Beard Award winner Chef Sherry Pocknett , who is a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, about her restaurants Sly Fox Den Too, which is in Charlestown, RI., as well as the restaurant she hopes to launch in Connecticut. Sherry also describes what it felt like to win the James Beard Award.