"These traditional Ohlone dishes, now featured at ammatka, a new cafe on its bottom floor, perfectly align with those goals as part of the LHS's 'ottoy initiative, whose mission is to foster understanding and respect for Ohlone people and culture. (ottoy means to repair in Chochenyo, the language of the Ohlone people.)"
"Behind the ottoy initiative and the new restaurant are Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino, partners in life and numerous endeavors, who have had a ground-shaking effect on Berkeley and the East Bay, starting in 2018, when they opened Cafe Ohlone on the back patio of University Books on Bancroft Avenue. Their restaurant was the first in the world to serve Ohlone cuisine."
"Serendipitously, they were able to open their next restaurant ottoyak' in 2022 on the patio outside the Hearst Anthropology Museum (after the building was de-named for Alfred Kroeber, who had erroneously declared the Ohlones extinct). Ottoy, the name of their reopened restaurant, means repair. This led to the ottoy initiative at the LHS."
The Lawrence Hall of Science, a UC Berkeley-affiliated museum, launched the ottoy initiative to foster understanding and respect for Ohlone people and culture. The initiative centers on ammatka, a new cafe serving traditional Ohlone dishes like smoked duck sandwiches and chia seed pudding. Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino, Ohlone partners who opened Cafe Ohlone in 2018—the world's first restaurant serving Ohlone cuisine—spearhead this effort. After their initial restaurant closed during the pandemic, they opened ottoyak' in 2022 at the Hearst Anthropology Museum. The ottoy initiative, meaning "repair" in Chochenyo, aligns with the museum's commitment to equity and social justice by centering indigenous voices and culinary traditions that were historically erased.
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