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Blood Tribe featured in Indigenous cooking series

A six episode Indigenous cooking documentary features a chef cooking some special cuisine on the Blood Reserve.

The show is called Red Chef Revival and you can watch all six episodes on YouTube.

Danny Berish is one of the producers of the show. He tells My Lethbridge Now.com that at Blood Tribe, one of the key ingredients they wanted to feature was bison.

“We actually cooked with bison heart over an open fire. One of the most incredible things when we were there is when we met with an elder who took us to a field with a bunch of poplar trees. We extracted a syrup called zhylem which is very seldom available.”

https://youtu.be/xeDFWn2cEd0

Chef Shane Chartrand is from the Enoch Cree Nation near Edmonton. Berish says one Chartrand’s friends is well-known Blackfoot film maker Cowboy Smithx, so it was natural they’d shoot one of these episodes on the Blood Reserve.

Berish says this show is about introducing people to Indigenous cuisine, which he calls the original farm to table food.

He notes Red Chef Revival is more than just a cooking show, it shares intimate stories of the people behind the plate.

Other parts of the series were filmed Fort McMurray, Maskwacis (Hobeema), as well as Prince Rupert, Osoyoos, and Nemiah Valley in B.C.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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