Chef Amy to discuss healing and Alaska Native traditional foods

Julie Stricker
907-474-5406
Nov. 25, 2024

Two women pull potatoes in a field with farm buildings and mountains in the background.
Photo courtesy of Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center
Amy Foote, left, and Jodie Anderson harvest Tlingit and Haida potatoes, traditional Alaska Native foods that were served to patients at Alaska Native Medical Center.

Join ΠΤΣϋΙη Cooperative Extension Service and chef Amy Foote for a lunch and learn session titled β€œFinding Healing in Alaska Native Traditional Foods.” Foote is director of cuisine for NANA Management Services and formerly was the executive chef at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage.

Participants can join Foote in person at ΠΤΣϋΙη Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center, 1509 Georgeson Road, Palmer, or via Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 9. The discussion will center on Alaska Native traditional foods and healing, both personally and for our communities.

if you plan to attend either in person or via Zoom. You will receive an email with a link to join the class. If you are unable to attend the class but would like to listen in later, you may still register, and all registrants will receive a recording of the class.

Feel free to bring your lunch if you plan to attend in person.

For more information, contact Melissa Clampitt at mrclampitt@alaska.edu or 907-745-3551.

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made five business days in advance to Clampitt. Language access services, such as interpretation or translation of vital information, will be provided free of charge to individuals with limited English proficiency upon request to amnorris2@alaska.edu. 

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