In fabulous news out of chef-land, Odd Duck has a new chef de cuisine: Bryce Stevenson, the Ojibwe chef whose restaurant Miijim brought a modern Indigenous dining experience to Madeline Island. Miijim translates to food in the Ojibwe language.

Stevenson has worked at Odd Duck before. He started as a line cook in the old days of Hello Falafel, a short-lived Middle Eastern place also operated by the Odd Duck team. After Stevenson left that job, co-owner Melissa Buchholz says they stayed in touch. That led to a Miijim pop-up last January at Odd Duck.

Stevenson’s restaurant operated in La Pointe, on the Apostle Island of Madeline Island, for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Early this year, I reached out to him to find out his plans for 2025. They were, I learned, to find a new home for Mi

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