Understanding American Food Traditions

Please join the American Center in Moscow on Friday, December 13th, 2024, at 21:00 MSK for a unique culinary experience with renowned Chef Nephi Craig.

About the speaker: Chef Nephi Craig has 26 years of culinary experience in America and abroad in Canada, Mexico,  London, Germany, Brazil, and Japan. Nephi Craig is an enrolled member of the White Mountain  Apache Tribe and is half Navajo. Chef Craig is the founder of the Native American Culinary Association or NACA, an organization/network that is dedicated to the research, refinement, and development of Native American Cuisine. Chef Nephi Craig provides training, workshops, and lecture sessions on Indigenous Foods for Health to schools, restaurants, universities, treatment centers, behavioral health agencies, and tribal entities from across America and abroad. Chef  Craig served as Executive Chef of the Sunrise Park Resort Hotel. During Chef Craig’s nine-year tenure at Sunrise Park Resort, Craig and his White Mountain Apache culinary team achieved many national and international benchmarks in establishing a culture of Indigenous Foods across North  America. Chef Craig was featured in the James Beard Award-winning film ‘Gather’ in 2020, which showcases Craig’s leadership in the Indigenous Food Sovereignty movement now spreading across the United States and around the world.  

Chef Craig is currently the Nutritional Recovery Program Coordinator & Executive Chef at the  Rainbow Treatment Center at Café Gozhóó on the White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona. Chef Nephi Craig is a 2023 James Beard Foundation Nominee for ‘Best Chef Southwest’ and also holds an honorary degree of PhD in Visual Arts: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory from the  Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.

View the recipe here.

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