Stephanie Despain

Stephanie Despain Instagram – Such a thought-provoking conversation with Pyet DeSpain @chefpyet, host of PBS’s Spirit Plate (and author of the brand new Rooted in Fire). We talked with her about the exact moment she realized she didn’t feel connected to the food she was cooking—and what she did to fix that, a dinner party that changed everything, why and how her conversations about food and culture with Native American youth around the country are so important, and one of her favorite Indigenous food traditions—cooking with rocks.

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