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Commission backs $21,000 in bed-tax support for Arizona Indigenous Culinary Experience

3425377 · May 21, 2025
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The Tourism Development Commission recommended $21,000 in bed-tax funding to support the Arizona Indigenous Culinary Experience, a year-round programming and November festival spotlighting tribal foodways and cultural storytelling.

The Tourism Development Commission voted May 20 to recommend up to $21,000 in bed-tax funding to support the Arizona Indigenous Culinary Experience (ACE), an event and year-round journalism and programming initiative that highlights tribal foodways and indigenous culinary traditions.

Jeffrey Lasos Ferns, founder and producer of the Arizona Indigenous Culinary Experience, told commissioners the program is in…

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