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Toasted Sister (Podcast)
Toasted Sister is a food journalism podcast hosted by food writer and photographer Andi Murphy that highlights American chefs and farmers who work to preserve Native American food heritage. The podcast explores what Indigenous cuisine is, where it comes from, where it’s headed, and how it’s used to connect them and their people to their origins and traditions through interviews with Native chefs and other members of the food industry. Murphy lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is a member of the Navajo tribe. She currently works for Native America Calling as an associate producer. The podcast was inspired by Murphy's own love of cooking and desire to teach fellow natives how to cook using foods sourced from a commodity supplemental food program. According to her, Native Americans have a mutual relationship with food; it appears in oral history, songs and music, and plays a role in ceremonies. She wants to combine the historical memory of these foods with ingredients that are readily available today. "Toasted Sister" seeks not only to share native food culture but also to help Native communities cook using foods they're unaccustomed to. Rates of diabetes among Native populations are two times higher than that of caucasian Americans. Murphy believes instructional journalism such as this may help lower those rates.

This show is supported by the Koahnic Broadcast Corporation. It’s affiliated with Native Voice One. It plays regularly on Navajo Technical University’s KCZY radio station and on the RIVR (Rising Indigenous Voices Radio) every Saturday and Sunday.