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Our Knives Will Save Us: Dispatches From A White Mountain Apache Chef
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From Indigenous Chef Nephi Craig, A Searing Personal And Cultural Reckoning That Demonstrates The Power Of Food To Heal Intergenerational Woundsat Just Eighteen Years Old, Nephi Craig Was Facing A Felony Charge That Could Have Put Him In Prison For Years. Having Struggled With Substance Abuse Throughout His Teens, His Life Had Come To A Dizzying Halt. So When A Judge Ordered Three Years Of Probation InsteadOn The Condition He Attend Work Or SchoolCraig Took It As An Opportunity For A New Lease On Life. Not Long After, He Enrolled In A Culinary Arts Program A Few Hours From Whiteriver, Arizona, Where He Had Grown Up On The White Mountain Apache Tribe Reservation. Expecting Little More Than A Means To An End, Craig Quickly Discovered A Talent And Passion For Cooking. He Also Experienced A Profound Dissonance As The Only Indigenous Person In The Kitchen, Preparing European Recipes ThatDisguised By Their French And Italian NamesRelied On Ingredients Native To The Americas.Craig Untangled The Buried Histories Of Indigenous Cultivars Such As Tomato, Cacao, And Amaranth, Each One A Portal Into Possibility As Well As A Marker Of The Violent Legacy Of Colonization. As He Did So, He Found New Ways To Honor His Apache And Navajo Roots And Build Indigenous Food Sovereignty. His Journey Led Him Around The World, From Top FineDining Restaurants In The United States To HighProfile Banquets In Brazil, England, Germany, And Japan. All The While, Craig Wrestled With Addiction, Entering One Treatment Center After Another In The Hopes That He Could GetAnd RemainSober.In The Heat, Frenzy, And Collaborative Energy Of Restaurant Kitchens, Craig Found A Lifeline. But When He Was Faced With The Difficult Decision Of Choosing Between A CareerDefining Executive Chef Job And An Opportunity To Serve His Community Back On The Rez, He Realized His True Vocation. Interweaving Personal Reflection With Illuminating Cultural Insight, Our Knives Will Save Us Offers A Vision Of Hope: One Where Food Is Decolonized And Cooking Is A Pathway To Healing For All Of Us.
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