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Norma Listman & Saqib Keval, Chefs & Owners, Masala y Maíz

Chefs Owners Masala y Maiz Masala y Maiz explores the migration of people, culinary techniques, ingredients, cultural foodways and political movements between South Asia, East Africa & Mexico. Chef-Owners Norma Listman & Saqib Keval dreamed of Masala y Maiz as a restaurant like few others. The restaurant is based on their years of research to understand the intersections of their respective cultures and the many similarities between their foodways. They cook in those shared flavors and histories. The food is a mestizaje- an organic blending of cultures over generations often in response to colonization & displacement. Masala y Maiz opened in 2019 as a restaurant to celebrate the cultures in between that happen when people come together. The food is intensely personal, based on the family recipes & histories of Norma & Saqib. The restaurant is a reflection of the chefs’ belief that food can be used as a powerful tool in the struggle for justice and that chefs have the responsibility to advocate and work towards bettering labor conditions for everyone in the food industry. Masala y Maiz is a community project that puts workers and farmers first. Norma and Saqib met in the kitchen in Oakland, CA tracing their ancestral recipes and shared foodways. They started Masala y Maiz as an independent research project but it has now grown to become a restaurant group in Mexico City that includes 2 restaurants, a worker-owned cooperative grocery store, a chef & artist residency program and a cooperative natural wine project. Born and raised in Texcoco and Mexico City, Norma Listman has spent her life chronicling Mexican food craft and foodways. Saqib's heritage is from India, but home for him is East Africa where his family has been for the last 200 years. Their menus are equal parts history lesson, activist project and culinary storytelling. Norma and Saqib are inspired by and drawn to projects that put workers, community and justice first. They work in collaboration with the designer Carla Fernandez and her Manifesto de la Moda en Resistencia. @masalaymaiz #MasalaYMaiz #CulinaryActivism #FoodAsJustice #MestizajeCuisine #CulturalFoodways #WorkerOwnedCooperative #FoodHistory #JusticeInFood #MexicanFoodCraft #ChefOwnedRestaurants