Sean Sherman: Food Lab sent 10,000 meals to Minnesota tribes during pandemic
Sean Sherman · HIBT Lab! The Sioux Chef: Sean Sherman · Feb 2, 2023 · at 26:29
Chef Sean Sherman discusses community relief efforts led by his non-profit kitchen during the 2020 pandemic and civil unrest in Minneapolis.
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“We got a small group of our team back together in our kitchen and started doing food relief all through twenty-twenty feeding a lot of homeless encampments, and then as the winter came around, we started sending food directly to tribal communities, so at the height, we were sending out 10,000 meals to nine out of 11 tribes in Minnesota”
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