A Feather and a Fork Brunch: A Cooking Class with Chef Crystal Wahpepah
About this Event
Cook With a James Beard-Recognized Chef, Straight From Her New Cookbook
Join us for an intimate, hands-on cooking class with Chef Crystal Wahpepah, founder of Wahpepah's Kitchen in Oakland and the first Indigenous woman to own a restaurant in Northern California. Together we'll cook straight from the pages of her brand-new cookbook, A Feather and a Fork — a celebration of Indigenous foodways, seasonal ingredients, and the stories that live in every dish.
Meet Chef Crystal
Crystal Wahpepah is an enrolled member of the Kickapoo Nation of Oklahoma and one of the most celebrated voices in contemporary Native cuisine. A 2022 James Beard Award finalist in the "Emerging Chef" category, a U.S. State Department culinary ambassador, and the first Indigenous chef ever featured on Food Network's Chopped, Chef Crystal has spent her career bringing Indigenous foodways to national tables — without ever losing sight of where those foods come from.
Her cooking is rooted in land acknowledgment: every dish on her menu tells you something about the earth it grew from, the community that tended it, and the generations who passed the recipe down. For Indigenous peoples, food has never been separate from land — corn, wild onions, sumac, bison, and hominy aren't just ingredients, they're relationships. Harvesting, hunting, and preparing food are acts of reciprocity with the land, not just extraction from it. Chef Crystal's cooking style brings that philosophy into every class: seasonal, ancestral, and deeply place-based, blending traditional techniques with a modern chef's hand.
The Menu: A Feather and a Fork Brunch
Cooked live, together, straight from the new book:
- Corn Cakes with Wild Onions
- Blueberry Bison Meatballs with Blueberry Sauce
- Strawberry-Sumac Salad with Maple-Sage Vinaigrette
- Fried Hominy and Smoked Sweet Potato Hash
- Blackberry Cornbread Pudding
Tickets
Options:
Class Only$160 Class or Signed Copy of A Feather and a Fork $180
Seats are limited — this is a small, hands-on class at Coastal Table and Tales, Georgia's first culinary bookstore and cooking workshop space.
Reserve your seat today and cook with one of Indigenous cuisine's most celebrated chefs.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 180.82 to USD 203.29
