"Mitsitam" means "Let's Eat!" in the Native language of the Delaware and Piscataway peoples.
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2019 Intertribal Food Summit: Bringing people together with traditional Native foods - IndianCountryToday.com
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Please come to the museum's Living Earth program featuring Chef Sean Sherman and Mitsitam's Chef Freddie Bitsoie on Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 3 p.m.
They will discuss the importance of bringing indigenous foods and ingredients back to the dinner table. Followed by a book signing of Sherman’s 2018 James Beard Award-winning book, The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen.
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Top of Mind
A holiday feast with a focus on indigenous ingredients and cooking methods is on the menu Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian today. Chef Freddie J. Bitsoie talked with us about the Navajo dish he craves and the significance of the #ThreeSistersSalad on the menu for Mitsitam Cafe at the National Museum of the American Indian's annual #Thanksgiving meal.
https://www.byuradio.org/episode/e578f330-50b1-4856-a7fa-26d5ac722ea8/top-of-mind-with-julie-rose-native-american-thanksgiving-doctor-burnout-rwanda-heroes?playhead=60&autoplay=true
See our recent write up in Atlas Obscura!
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Ceviche
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Photo by (c) Renee Comet, Restaurant Associates and Smithsonian Institution.
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OGLALA SIOUX NATION, U.S.A. – Blood staining their hands, dozens of men, women and children are wielding knives in the schoolyard. Bones and flesh and entrails are heaped in mounds all around. This scene in the heartlands of the United States is, however, anything but the kind of violent outbreak ...
Place your holiday dinner order today!
Washington-area friends, let the Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe prepare your holiday dinner. Freddie Bitsoie (Diné [Navajo])—Mitsitam's first Native American executive chef and a scholar of Native cooking techniques, as well as Native foods—offers complete menus around main courses of agave and apple-glazed ham or herb-crusted prime rib. Or you can choose a la carte. Order online or by phone on or before December 20 for pick-up December 24. Details on the graphic. Online orders: http://bit.ly/MitsitamHoliday18
Native Food Perspectives: A different kind of ‘soul food’ | The Circle News
Cover StoryNative Food Perspectives: A different kind of ‘soul food’ By catwhipple - December 3, 2018 0 367 views Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter Christina Valtierra started Native Food Perspective as a Minneapolis-based food catering that focuses on healthy indigenous food. (Photo by Lee Ege...
In 1621, a group of Pilgrims and Native Americans came together for a meal that many Americans call "The First Thanksgiving." But get this—it wasn't the first, and the meal itself wasn't so special either. The event was actually all but forgotten for hundreds of years…until it was dusted off to bolster the significance of a new national holiday: Thanksgiving. This time on Sidedoor, we talk to Paul Chaat Smith, a curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, to explore how much of what you think you know about Native Americans may be more fiction than fact.
https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/ep-8-brunch-forest
Learn more about Sidedoor: ep. 8 | that brunch in the forest
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#DYK that you can order your Thanksgiving meal from the Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe? Order deadline is Friday, Nov. 16!
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Chef Bitsoie will be sharing his stories and food at Princeton next month!
We’re excited to welcome Freddie Bitsoie from the Mitsitam Café at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian for a three-course prix fixe lunch and talk on November 13 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Cost is $21.95 per person and is open only to Princeton faculty and staff and their gue...
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Are you ready to try some green chile posole? Tlayuda - handmade dish in traditional Oaxacan cuisine, consisting of a large, thin, crunchy, partially fried or toasted tortilla covered with a spread of refried beans, asiento (unrefined pork lard), lettuce or cabbage, avocado, meat (with choices of shredded chicken, beef tenderloin or chorizo), Oaxaca cheese, and salsa. Finally, try the strawberry cake!
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