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Roots and Recipes: Learning from Indigenous Cuisine and Language

Name: Roots and Recipes: Learning from Indigenous Cuisine and Language
Start: 2025-11-20T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-20T13:00:00-05:00

November 20, 2025 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Roots and Recipes: Learning from Indigenous Cuisine and Language, with Irwin Sánchez, indigenous chef and Nahua poet

Come to cook, eat, and learn! James Beard award-winning indigenous chef and Nahua poet Irwin Sánchez is coming to Freeman Dining Hall’s Teaching Kitchen to teach how to prepare a wonderful autumn stew, and then to share a presentation and feast, and his original poems in the Nahua language, with the Montclair community!

Thursday, Nov 20

11am: Cooking class with Irwin

12-1pm: Feast & poetry

Open to all! The usual $15 entrance fee for Freeman covers this event; there are also subsidized and free tickets available for those who need some help!

Details

Date: November 20, 2025
Time:
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Event Categories: Community Gathering, Cooking Class, In Person, Open to Public, Poetry, Workshop
Event Tags:chef, Freeman Dining Hall, indigenous cuisine, indigenous language, Irwin Sánchez, Nahua, Nahuatl, poetry, Thanksgiving