Vincent Medina, Co-founder, mak-'amham and Cafe Ohlone Louis Trevino, Co-founder, mak-'amham and Cafe Ohlone A presentation by Vincent Medina (Chochenyo Ohlone) and Louis Trevino (Rumsen Ohlone), cofounders of mak-'amham and Cafe Ohlone, a restaurant pop-up at University Press Books in Berkeley devoted to the traditional foods of Bay Area Native peoples. They write: “We are a Native American, Ohlone-run organization that operates in our indigenous homelands; we work to revive and strengthen traditional Ohlone foods for the wellness of our people. We work to keep our cuisine and culture strong to honor those before us who loved these powerful foods, and to have greater visibility for the Ohlone community that we are a part of. “All our food is indigenous to California, specifically to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area. All of the primary ingredients mak-'amham utilizes are foods that would be recognizable and attainable in the traditional Ohlone world before contact with outside forces. Our food represents true California cuisine, as these are the very first flavors of California before other foods and cuisines were brought here. We are proud to honor where we come from and who we come from. We are certain that our delicious Ohlone foods will speak to the dignity and sophistication of the community we descend from.” For more information, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu. -------------------------- Arts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA is made possible thanks to support from the Big Ideas Courses Program in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley and from generous supporters of Berkeley Arts + Design. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.