Chef Sean Sherman brings Native American cuisine to HKW—on 17 and 18 November

The third edition of Tongue and Throat Memories explores the Indigenous culinary traditions of the Americas and beyond with a curated dinner, performances, poetry, a book launch and a film screening.

Friday, 17 November 2023  
18.00 Safi Faye Hall
Book Launch and Conversation
Sean Sherman and Hinemoana Baker
Free entry

Saturday, 18 November 2023 
17.00 Safi Faye Hall
Gather by Sanjay Rawal
Film Screening
Free entry

Revitalizing Native American Cuisine with The Sioux Chef
18.30 Weltwirtschaft Restaurant
Karanga welcoming
Performance by Hinemoana Baker

19.00 Weltwirtschaft Restaurant
The (R)evolution of Indigenous Foodways
Curated dinner with Sean Sherman

21.00 Weltwirtschaft Restaurant
Poetry offering by Hinemoana Baker
Performance

Tickets for Performance & Dinner: Weltwirtschaft.berlin
 

Born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Sean Sherman, also known as The Sioux Chef, has dedicated his three-decades-long cooking practice to revitalizing Indigenous culinary traditions of the Americas and beyond. His work has greatly contributed to the preservation of cooking methods of Sioux communities but also to a greater understanding of the food systems developed on ancestral lands prior to colonial conquest and erasure. Shermann has studied on his own extensively to determine the foundations of these food systems which include the knowledge of Native American farming techniques, wild food usage and harvesting, land stewardship, salt and sugar making, hunting and fishing, food preservation, Native American migration histories, and elemental cooking techniques to gain a full understanding of bringing back a sense of Native American cuisine to today’s world. 

Chef Sherman opens this edition of Tongue and Throat Memories on 17 November with the launch of his book Der Sioux Chef. Indigen kochen (The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen) in conversation with Māori writer and poet Hinemoana Baker about Indigenous culinary knowledge, food justice and food sovereignty.

The following day, the Berlin audience can take part in a dinner curated by Sherman at Restaurant Weltwirtschaft. The evening begins with a karanga celebrated by Baker: a welcoming ceremony practised in Māori communities as part of the tradition of hospitality and socialising. After dinner, Hinemoana Baker concludes the evening with a poetry offering.

On Saturday at 17:00, the documentary Gather (2020) by Sanjay Nawal will be shown––an intimate portrait of the growing movement among Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identity through food sovereignty.

Sean Sherman's residency at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) is being organised in collaboration with Berlin-based Kanon Verlag. The German translation of his famous cook book The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen, written together with Beth Dooley, will be published there under the title Der Sioux Chef. Indigen kochen.

Co-funded by the European Union.

Learn more about the cooking sessions Tongue and Throat Memories. On hospitality and conviviality through food knowledges and convenings (2023–2027)

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Jan Trautmann

Pressesprecher
Lead Communications Officer
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
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