12 Facts About Sean Sherman

Sean Sherman was born on 1974 and is an American Oglala Lakota Sioux chef, cookbook author, forager, and promoter of Indigenous cuisine.

Sean Sherman received a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award and his 2017 cookbook, The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen, won the 2018 James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook.

Sean Sherman was born in 1974 and grew up on his grandparents' ranch on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

Sean Sherman hunted and foraged from an early age, recalling his grandfather giving him a shotgun on his seventh birthday.

Sean Sherman grew up eating many government commodity foods such as cereal, shortening, and canned hash, which he cites as the norm he seeks to depart from.

Sean Sherman got his first restaurant job washing dishes at 13, soon moving onto the line.

Sean Sherman spent a summer working for the US Forest Service in the Black Hills, identifying plants.

Sean Sherman spent most of his twenties working in a series of Minneapolis restaurants and by 27 was working as an executive chef.

In 2014 Sean Sherman founded indigenous food education business and caterer The Sioux Chef.

Sean Sherman founded the nonprofit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems in 2017.

In 2017 Sean Sherman co-authored The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen, published by the University of Minnesota, which won the 2018 James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook.

Sean Sherman was named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People of 2023 list.