Parma Café

Serving Up Resilience: Indigenous Chefs Preserve Native Foodways—and Create New Ones | Bon Appétit

"A small Montreal café and catering operation run by Mi’kmaw chef Norma Condo that focuses on reconnecting community health and culture through traditional ingredients and recipes. Menu items like Three Sisters Casserole (squash, corn and climbing beans), hearty Chippewa chicken on a bed of wild rice with cranberries, and crispy salmon cakes topped with maple-infused Gaspé Peninsula seaweed relish emphasize native plants, sage and ground roots to restore precontact dietary habits and combat diet-related illnesses. She also shares and incorporates recipes from other Nations and uses cooking as a means of passing traditions to younger generations." - ByRebecca Thomas