E89: Bryce Stevenson – Actual Shifts in the Wind

In this episode, I talk with Ojibwe chef Bryce Stevenson who is also the owner of Miijim in La Pointe, Wisconsin, an island in Lake Superior. He’s also a pretty talented poet whose work is included in the zine “Heart Rations: Indigenous Food Poetry.” Bryce is a creative guy who also takes up carpentry work during the off season, a necessity for folks who work on an island like La Pointe. Nininjiin A poem by Bryce Stevenson as a bowl, hysterically holding juice squeezed fresh from flesh, burnt festered, boiled weathered, leathered skin until muscles cooked within. Bones split, flavors grown no modifier nor amplifier in need. Too hot my hands to carry blistering dish, gravity given gift - re-room the hecatomb - a day minus the hours sleep & work spent in the only room in the house where existence is ensured through the destruction of life - the results of which, wasted.