Recipe Shared is about connection to specific neighborhoods and places in Denver. It is about change and displacement. Yet the history of displacement is long. The histories and neighborhoods described in Recipe Shared take place on lands stolen from Indigenous peoples: Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), hinono’eino’ biito’owu’ (Arapaho), Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ. 

The cast and creators of Recipe Shared grew up on lands that were home to Indigenous peoples before those peoples were forcibly removed. Those sovereign nations and peoples include: Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), hinono’eino’ biito’owu’ (Arapaho), Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Dakota, Canarsie, Munsee Lenape, Lenni-Lenape, and cast member Brianna Sanchez states, “my family is part of the Southern Ute Tribe and many of my family members grew up in Saguache, Colorado.