Willowbrook Mill Presents

Chef Loretta Barrett Oden

Thursday August 8, 2024

6 to 9pm at Willowbrook Mill, Northport,MI

Join us for an amazing Food & Culture Experience at Willowbrook Mill.

Five Inspired Courses utilizing foods that are traditional First American ingredients like salmon, buffalo, local seasonal fruits and produce including the "three sisters"; corn squash and beans.

From the appetizer course with its vibrant sangrita shooter paired with an elote flavored mescal and a husk wrapped packet of spicy popcorn to the dessert course, Loretta will bring Native American ingredients together in fantastic combinations! Each course is paired with a wine, cider or spirit.

Willowbrook Mill is working closely with our friends at the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and also the Little Traverse Bay Band of Ottawa Indians to present a rich cultural experience that honors, educates and celebrates this gathering of diverse community.

More About Loretta Barrett Oden!

Loretta Barrett Oden, is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and

owner of Corn Dance Enterprises in Oklahoma City. She is a sought after food

consultant, educator, and author.

Loretta is an EMMY Award winning chef and was the

owner of the renowned Corn Dance Cafes, fine dining restaurants featuring the

Indigenous foods of the Americas that operated in Santa Fe, New Mexico for 10 years.

She also hosted the EMMY Award winning five-episode PBS series, "Seasoned with Spirit - A Native Cook's Journey". Watch an episode here:

https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_508-7m03x8484m

Her extensive ingredient list includes that pre-

European contact foods that were abundant from "Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego"; utilized in menus that are cutting-edge but deeply rooted in tradition. She now travels

extensively doing cooking demonstrations, lectures, and programs relating to

Indigenous cuisine and culture, as well as health issues while introducing audiences to

a world of revitalization and an awareness of Indigenous foods systems.

Her first cookbook, “Corn Dance - Inspired First American Cuisine”. was released on

October 3, 2023. It sold out on Amazon in one week!

We will have a limited number of books for purchase and signing at the dinner thanks to Pamela Grath of Dog Ears Books in Northport!

Follow Loretta on social media!

Instagram: @lorettabvo

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loretta.oden

www.willowbrookmill.com

Seating is open. Reservation seating for groups of eight only. No substitutions.

Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians: https://www.gtbindians.org/

Little Traverse Bay Band of Ottawa Indians: https://ltbbodawa-nsn.gov/