Food is Medicine: Traditional foods lead a Sixties Scoop Survivor home – FNHA
Mar 24, 2025
How Nuxalk First Nations restaurateur Inez Cook reconnected to her family and community through food
An article from the FNHA’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer
Food has been medicine in more ways than one for Inez Cook, owner of the award-winning Salmon n’ Bannock Bistro, Vancouver’s only First Nations restaurant, and its offshoot, Salmon n’ Bannock on the Fly, located at the Vancouver International Airport.
Born a member of Nuxalk Nation in Bella Coola, BC, Inez was forcibly taken from her parents at the age of one and adopted into a white family. She was among about 20,000 Indigenous child victims of this practice, now known as the Sixties Scoop, although it was carried out between 1951 and 1991.
