Willie Nelson’s Music Festival Dinner Highlights Indigenous Chefs and Ingredients: Eater

From Crystal Wahpepah’s kitchen.

For Willie Nelson’s major music festival that happens during but isn’t affiliated with South by Southwest, Luck Reunion, the singer is hosting a potluck dinner highlighting Indigenous chefs and ingredients.

Potluck 2023: Three Sisters will focus on three main indigenous ingredients: maize, squash, and climbing beans in a family-style table-service dinner. The host chef is Brian Light of the New Texan restaurant Ronin in Bryan, Texas. The main participants are Kickapoo nation chef Crystal Wahpepah of Oakland restaurant Wahpepah’s Kitchen; Choctaw tribe chef Brit Reed of the I-Collective, and Yoeme tribe chef Sewa Yuli also of I-Collective. Austin chefs Nixta Taqueria’s Edgar Rico and Comadre Panaderia’s Mariela Camacho will cook bites for the cocktail hour. Helping the main participating chefs is celebrity chef Michel Nischan.

The evening will end with a performance by Nelson himself. The proceeds will go towards the Luck Family Foundation, which will give grants to Farm Aid, Wholesome Wave, and Texas Food & Wine Alliance. It takes place on Wednesday, March 15 from 5 to 11 p.m. at 1100 Bee Creek Road in Spicewood. Tickets are $750.

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