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On Saturday, Oct. 3, the Sacramento Native American Health Center Inc. will host its second annual fundraiser dinner. Titled “First Foods Dinner: An Indigenous Culinary Event,” it will be held at the Mack Powell Event Center at 2003 Howe Ave. in Arden Arcade.
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The event will feature a five-course prix fixe meal with a menu created by James Beard award finalist and the first-ever indigenous contestant on the cooking program Chopped Chef Crystal Wahpepah of Wahpepah’s Kitchen in Oakland.
The meal will focus on indigenous cuisine and ingredients from Northern California, as well as surrounding areas.
“We’re pulling in blue corn, for example, and that’s intentional because we are able to harvest from our area locally and also a little bit from the surrounding states and Southwest region. We love this time of year for the abundance that it brings,” said SNAHC’s chief program and development officer, Dr. Maureen Wimsatt.
The event will feature an educational component, where SNAHC’s own traditional health practitioner Sage LaPena will discuss where different elements of the meal are harvested, as well as some of their health benefits.
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“(There are) really ways that you can be improving your health by living off the land, and ways to take these traditional food ways and reincorporate them back into your family’s diet,” Wimsatt said.
Items on the menu will include a family-style serving of blue cornbread, maple, and maple cream as a bite. Appetizers will feature sage bison meatballs, smoked salmon with maple, and heirloom bean dip and homemade seed crackers. Salads will be a mix of coastal autumn greens and mixed California greens with elderberry vinaigrette, persimmons and hazelnuts. For the main course, guests will choose between an agave-glazed turkey breast dinner or a wild native pumpkin seed mole. Chocolate purple potato cake will round out the meal.
The event will run from 6-9 p.m., and tickets cost $300 apiece. Proceeds from the fundraiser support SNAHC and its mission to provide healthcare to vulnerable and low-income residents of Sacramento County. The event dress code is casual elegant.
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