Rising interest leads to wave of Indigenous catering companies – The Globe and Mail
By the age of eight, Theresa Contois was tall enough to reach the controls on her family’s kitchen stove. To her parents, that meant it was time to cook.
Contois, who is Anishinaabe and Lakota Sioux, quickly learned the art of making dinners as a member of a bustling household of 20. By 2011, she was an accomplished chef and Indigenous food instructor, launching Cedar Feast House Catering in Vancouver.
The company is dedicated to serving Indigenous cuisine, which she describes as medicine food that nourishes body and soul, to both clients and unhoused people on Hastings Street, where the business is located.
