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  • What We Remember: Indigenous Food, Food Sovereignty & Healing | Crystal Wahpepah

    What We Remember: Indigenous Food, Food Sovereignty & Healing | Crystal Wahpepah
    Oct 8 2026
    In Season 1, Episode 2 of the Mindfull Eating podcast, host Amy Paige Condon sits down with Indigenous Food Warrior Crystal Wahpepah, a registered member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma. Crystal is the force of nature behind Wahpepah's Kitchen, the first Native American woman-owned restaurant in North California. Located in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood, not far from where Crystal spent most of her childhood, the restaurant serves dishes that honor the city's intertribal community, where more than 200 Native American tribes are represented--the largest indigenous urban population in the United States. Growing up amid the city's activist Native American community, Crystal often wondered why the foods she grew up with--berries, wild turkey, venison, cracked corn and other dishes indicative of a pre-colonial diet--were never served in restaurants. She became an avid heirloom seed saver, working with the Cultural Conservancy's Heron Shadow farm to grow traditional corn, squash, beans, chilies, berries, and greens that she serves in her restaurant. In 2022, she was a national finalist for the James Beard Foundation's Emerging Chef award. Crystal has competed on the Food Network's Beat Bobby Flay, Alex vs. America, and was the first Indigenous chef on Chopped. Each one of these milestones has allowed her to talk about food sovereignty, food as medicine, and to ask, whose land are we on? Her debut cookbook, "A Feather and a Fork: 125 Intertribal Recipes from an Indigenous Food Warrior" was released by Penguin Random House in March 2026. Crystal's close friend Julia Sabory, the community development and engagement manager for the San Francisco Planning Department, joined us for dinner and conversation. Get recipes and more through The Tasty Bits newsletter. Learn More About Crystal Wahpepah Wahpepah's Kitchen — Oakland, California 39 Restaurant at the First Americans Museum — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma A Feather and a Fork — Cookbook by Crystal Wahpepah with Amy Paige Condon Follow Crystal Wahpepah and Wahpepah's Kitchen: Crystal Wahpepah on Instagram Wahpepah's Kitchen on Instagram Crystal Wahpepah on Facebook Wahpepah's Kitchen on Facebook Penguin Random House on Instagram Harmony Rodale Convergent on Instagram Each new episode of Mindfull Eating drops every other Thursday. On the following Sundays, the Tasty Bits newsletter takes you behind the scenes with recipes, images, pieces of conversation that didn’t make the cut, and five takeaways. EPISODES OF MINDFULL EATING ARE SPONSORED BY: The Refinery Writing Studio Russell Feed and Supply Picker Joe's Antique Mall and Marketplace MINDFULL EATING IS PROUDLY PRODUCED BY: DEE DANIELS MEDIA, Storytelling with a Purpose FIND A FAVORITE SPOT IN THIS EPISODE: 00:00 Southern Food Stories 00:49 Meet Crystal Wahpepah 02:08 Today’s Menu 02:50 Local Sponsor Break 04:14 Where Are Our Foods 05:59 Alcatraz Activism 08:17 Two Homes Oklahoma 10:10 Berries And Belonging 12:21 Nature As Medicine 13:46 Corn Soup Traditions 16:37 Foraging With Respect 20:23 Urban Disconnection 24:47 Becoming A Native Chef 28:40 Catering Origins 31:50 La Cocina And Branding 34:57 Tech Catering Training 37:38 Food Network Breakthrough 39:15 Making It On Chopped 39:51 Behind The Scenes Stress 40:52 Other Competition Shows 42:24 COVID Pivot To Wild Rice Bars 46:11 Letters Food As Medicine 49:44 Taking Over Reems Space 50:37 Designing The Restaurant Art 56:06 Opening Day Tears 01:00:52 Seed Saving On Display 01:03:10 Herons Shadow Land Back Farm 01:07:04 Food Sovereignty Lab Research 01:10:51 Healing Beyond Food Policy 01:13:31 Manaki at The Village 01:14:24 Teaching Kitchen Vision 01:16:08 Food as Foundation 01:18:44 Food Justice as Right 01:19:56 Whose Land Are We On 01:21:29 Rapid Fire Food Questions 01:25:20 Kitchen Skills and Heroes 01:27:53 Extravagances and Smells 01:32:22 Final Meal and Farewell 01:33:51 Sponsor Messages 01:35:42 Podcast Closing Credits
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    1 h et 37 min
  • What We Inherit: Food, Family, Land & Legacy | Matthew & Tia Raiford

    What We Inherit: Food, Family, Land & Legacy | Matthew & Tia Raiford
    Sep 23 2026

    Amy Paige Condon hosts the Mindfull Eating podcast. In Season 1, Episode 1, she interviews husband-and-wife chefs and farmers, Matthew and Tia Raiford. Matthew Raiford grew up near Brunswick, Georgia, not far from the farm that his great-great-great-great grandfather Jupiter Gilliard bought more than 150 years ago after being freed from enslavement. Matthew left soon after graduating high school when he joined the military, vowing he would never return to the South. But his Nana knew better and turned over the deed to the farm to Matthew and his sister Althea in 2010, making them the sixth generation of their Gullah Geechee family to turn this soil.

    After leaving the military, Matthew attended the Culinary Institute of America, where he first met Tia, a Philadelphia native who riffs on recipes like her uncle and father did on jazz albums. They remained friends and culinary collaborators until they married in 2021. Tia now serves as a senior corporate chef for the Hormel Culinary Collective. Together, they have started a series of spice blends and hot sauces and host dinners on their farm.

    In 2018, Matthew and Amy collaborated on Matthew's debut cookbook, "Bress 'n' Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer," which was published by Countryman Press in May 2021.

    For this episode of Mindfull Eating, Amy served Grandma Florine's Salmon Cakes on Pepper Rice, Cowpea Salad, Curried Vegetable Galette, and Nana's Sweet Potato Pie--all recipes from Matthew's cookbook that brought back the taste of home for him. In this episode, Matthew, Tia and Amy discuss their roads to the kitchen; what it means to return home, especially as a Black man to the South; the way the Great Migration influenced foods in places like Philly and Chicago; and their mission to spread the gospel of heritage and regenerative farming.

    Get recipes and more through The Tasty Bits newsletter. Each new episode of Mindfull Eating drops every other Thursday. On the following Sundays, the Tasty Bits newsletter takes you behind the scenes with recipes, images, pieces of conversation that didn’t make the cut, and five takeaways.

    EPISODES OF MINDFULL EATING ARE SPONSORED BY:

    The Refinery Writing Studio

    Russell Feed and Supply

    Picker Joe's Antique Mall and Marketplace

    MINDFULL EATING IS PROUDLY PRODUCED BY:

    DEE DANIELS MEDIA, Storytelling with a Purpose
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    1 h et 39 min
  • Welcome to Mindfull Eating: A Down-Home Meal

    Welcome to Mindfull Eating: A Down-Home Meal
    Mar 15 2026

    Mindfull Eating: Official Trailer

    In the South, food isn’t just fuel—it’s history, memory, and the way we show love.

    Join writer and Southern storyteller Amy Paige Condon for the launch of Mindfull Eating, a new podcast from the Dee Daniels Media Podcast Network. In this trailer, get a taste of the stories we’re serving up—from front porches to fish fries, cast iron to community cookbooks.

    We’re dishing out the people, places, and moments behind the meals that shape us. Whether you’re a chef, a home cook, or just someone who knows the kitchen is where the real stories live, there’s a seat at our table for you.

    Pull up a chair and let’s get full in every sense of the word.

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    Keywords: Mindfull Eating, Mindful Eating, Southern Food, Food History, Storytelling, Amy Paige Condon, Dee Daniels Media.
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    2 min