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Nephi Craig & Chris Rodriguez - Pull Up a Chair: Culinary Culture and Mental Health
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 2:00 pm Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join us for a conversation about Culinary Culture and Mental Health with Chefs Nephi Craig and Chris Rodriguez. This is the fourth episode in the series called Pull Up a Chair, featu… Read More.
Question:
In what state is Nephi's restaurant located?
— Patricia McGrattan
Answer:
Yeah, okay. Well coming to you from the White Mountain Apache tribe in northeastern, Arizona. We operate a small Cafe called Café Gozhóó and Gozhóó is an Apache word. That means balance love laughter Harmony Joy all kinds of different things and a lot of different uses. A Catholic Ojo is a small 32 seat Cafe. We do Western Apache cooking and Cuisine and we try to expand food vocabulary in our community. We are on the White Mountain Apache reservation and about three and a half hours Northeast of Phoenix. So we're we're way out there. I kind of I kind of think about those old school French books. That would say if you want to get you know Regional Classical French cooking you have to go out to the countryside and Lyon or north of France South France. Kind of feel like we're in a way making that happen too. If you want to get some real patchy style foods and see a real Apache team. You got a, you know, get three at three and a half four hours away from the city and weigh on the boonies on the mountains on the wrist. That's where we're at.
