John Farais the native plant chef works with native american cuisine including Aztec cuisine.
Coming up at 4 PM on July 4 at the Marin County fair in San Rafael (next to the Civic Center) you can watch John during the GLOBAL KITCHEN event.
John will be doing a food demonstration on ancient Aztec food.
John Farais The Culinary Cowboy
This chef, cowboy, farmer, artist and spiritual traveler celebrates Native American ingredients and agriculture for a viable and sustainable future. John Farais is a Sonoma County chef who specializes in the history, taste and promotion of the Americas’ indigenous cuisine. He has dedicated himself to developing a Native American cuisine that combines the historical natives with the contemporary and bringing recognition to these mostly overlooked, traditionally healthy foods. He gardens native Aztec corn, 1,000-year-old Anasazi beans, Lakota squash, elderberry, yerba buena, nettles, amaranthus and sun chokes at a Sonoma winery to develop a market and teach their history.
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