The hugely popular Tatanka Truck - the food truck by The Sioux Chef, the company behind James Beard-nominated indigenous restaurant, Owamni, Minneapolis - has returned.
Owamni chef and co-owner Sean Sherman first opened the Tatanka Truck in Minneapolis in 2015, in partnership with the Little Earth of United Tribes community. The truck was a huge success, serving indigenous foods from the Dakota and Minnesota territories, such as bison tamales, smoked turkey wild rice bowls, and 'three sisters' soup made with squash, beans, and hominy.
After two years, the Tatanka Truck project was parked to allow the Sioux Chef team the resources to concentrate on opening their Owamni restaurant - one that has been nominated for a James Beard Awardin two categories: 'Best Chef: Midwest' and 'Best New Restaurant'.
Tatanka Truck represents an opportunity for Twin Cities residents to enjoy Owamni’s cuisine, which has earned both national and international recognition, as the restaurant’s reservation book fills up months in advance.
“The kitchen at Owamni is so small that it can barely support the top level of Owamni,” saidco-owner Dana Thompson. “When we expand our seating in the summer to include the outdoor seating on the upstairs patio, our kitchen is stretched so thin it can barely support it. To also be servicing the downstairs patio is completely outside the realm of possibility — so we essentially had to expand and buy another kitchen in the form of a food truck.”
Owamni and Sherman’s non-profit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS) work to preserve and revitalise Native American foodways, by identifying recipes, empowering communities and creating a market for a cuisine that has been scandalously overlooked until now. The Tatanka Truck is another spoke in the wheel of a project that is reframing indigenous cuisine both in Minnesota and beyond.
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