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Native Foods: Dining with Nature

Fort Mason Center | Included with Taste Pavilions Ticket: $45 - 65 | Saturday, August 30; 11am – 3pm (SOLD OUT); 5pm – 9pm (SOLD OUT) | Sunday, August 31; 11am – 3pm (SOLD OUT); 5pm – 9pm (SOLD OUT)

America has been home to a rich, diverse food culture for many centuries longer than the United States have existed. The Native Foods Pavilion brings our country’s native and natural worlds to life. A woven tule hut made from native California grass provides a space to present on food traditions like grinding acorns to make flour, foraging for seaweed and gathering wild rice. Tasting these foods and exploring the exhibit allows visitors to experience the scents, tastes, textures and rhythms of the native cultures that predated European settlement and are still in practice today.

NATIVE FOODS available to taste will include wild rice from the White Earth Land Recovery Project, posole with native corn hominy and buffalo.




Curator:Bernadette Zambrano, Urban Gardener and Seed Saver; Lois Ellen Frank, Native Foods Chef from Red Mesa Cuisine

Designer: John Glavis, Organic Gardener and Permaculturalist; Diana Almendariz, Tule weaver of Wintu and Maidu ancestry

In-Kind Supporters: Durham Ranches, Inc., Full Belly Farm

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