Campbell County Public Library is welcoming Brian Yazzie, a.k.a. Yazzie the Chef (Diné/Navajo), to the library on Friday and Saturday. This two-day event will feature a cooking class, an evening presentation and a pop-up lunch.
Friday’s event includes Cooking with Chef Yazzie at noon. The free family-friendly class (kids age 7-plus accompanied with grown-up) is limited to 40 students. Sign up at
tinyurl.com/CCPLYazzieClass.
At 5:30 p.m., there will be Indigenous Food Sovereignty presented by Chef Yazzie
On Saturday at 12:30 p.m. is the pop-up lunch. The library is turning the CCPL Wyoming Room into a temporary restaurant. This is a first-come, first served event
Chef Yazzie is from Dennehotso, Arizona and is based out of Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has a degree of Associate in Applied Science in Culinary Arts from Saint Paul College, 2016. Yazzie is delegate of Slow Food Turtle Island Association, and a team member at I-Collective: a collective of cooks, chefs, seed keepers, farmers, foragers, and scholars, focused on bringing awareness to the cultural appropriations of indigenous foods of the Americas.
Brian and his fiancée, Danielle Polk (Hoonmana Polk) are the founders/owners of Intertribal Foodways, a culinary mission specifically working with and for the betterment of tribal communities, wellness, and health through Indigenous foods. They travel internationally and are available for catering, private dinners, pop up dinners, chef demos and cooking classes, collaborations and presentations on indigenous food sovereignty.
