How to Eat with Awareness and Purpose (w/ Sean Sherman) | How to Be a Better Human | TED

If you remove ingredients like dairy, wheat, flour, cane sugar, beef, pork and chicken from your diet — then what do you eat? For Sioux chef Sean Sherman, excluding these colonial ingredients from his dishes gives him the opportunity to spotlight Indigenous produce and uplift local communities. Watch as Chris Duffy, host of the podcast “How to Be a Better Human,” travels to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to meet Sherman and ethnobotanist Linda Black Elk as they talk about foraging, access to Indigenous ingredients and how food connects us to our ancestors.

This episode is part of a series of bonus videos from "How to Be a Better Human." You can find the extended interview on the TED Audio Collective YouTube Channel.
Listen to this episode wherever you get your podcast: https://link.mgln.ai/iE9fFE

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Host: Chris Duffy (Instagram: @chrisiduffy | https://chrisduffycomedy.com/)
Guests:
Sean Sherman (Instagram: @the_sioux_chef and @siouxchef | https://seansherman.com/)  
Linda Black Elk (Instagram: @linda.black.elk)

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Humor Me by Chris Duffy (https://t.ted.com/ZGuYfcL)
Instagram: @owamni | Facebook: @Owamni - By The Sioux Chef | https://owamni.com/
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