Red Chef Revival
Black Rhino Creative's latest documentary series and winner of STORYHIVE's 100K Edition, Red Chef Revival, is an intimate 6 x 22 minute food and travel show exploring modern Indigenous cuisine, through the eyes of three chefs; New York Times featured, Cezin Nottaway, Top Chef finalist, Rich Francis and Chopped finalist Shane Chartrand. Using food as their access point, these chefs discover a new path to reconciliation. Red Chef Revival features ingredients you won't find in any cookbooks, like bison heart, beaver tail, moose nose, seal and cougar. More than a cooking show, this is a people's story on a plate.
- 2019-2019
- 1 season
- Documentary
Black Rhino Creative's latest documentary series and winner of STORYHIVE's 100K Edition, Red Chef Revival, is an intimate 6 x 22 minute food and travel show exploring modern Indigenous cuisine, through the eyes of three chefs; New York Times featured, Cezin Nottaway, Top Chef finalist, Rich Francis and Chopped finalist Shane Chartrand. Using food as their access point, these chefs discover a new path to reconciliation. Red Chef Revival features ingredients you won't find in any cookbooks, like bison heart, beaver tail, moose nose, seal and cougar. More than a cooking show, this is a people's story on a plate.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2019
Episode 1
Osoyoos
22 mins
Coming to grips with his inner demons, host Rich Francis travels to what he calls the Hollywood of Indigenous Reservations, Osoyoos, to cook with an ingredient he's never used before, cougar.
Episode 2
Fort McMurray
21 mins
Braving a recent breakup, host Shane Chartrand visits the Blood Tribe to cook a bison heart over an open fire. Combining rare zhylem syrup harvested from balsam poplar trees, a phenomenon which only happens once every three years, he finds new meaning in Indigenous cuisine.
Episode 3
Prince Rupert
23 mins
Host Shane Chartrand explores the iconic North Pacific Cannery on Canada's West Coast. A place where Chinese, Indigenous and Japanese communities converged. Struggling to connect with his own identity, Shane cooks a traditional seal meat stew, gets a hand poked tattoo and prepares a salmon tasting menu.
Episode 4
Maskwacis
22 mins
Following an epidemic of suicides and gun violence, youth of Maskwacis are re-writing their future. Host Rich Francis finds new meaning to reconciliation by cooking moose nose ragu for the community and teaching the students of Nipisihkopahk School to make their own moose leg salad.
Episode 5
Blood Tribe
23 mins
Braving a recent breakup, host Shane Chartrand visits the Blood Tribe to cook a bison heart over an open fire.
Episode 6
Nemiah Valley
23 mins
An annual deadly horse race brings host Cezin Nottaway to Nemiah Valley, an untouched back-country in the interior of British Columbia. Struggling with her own insecurities, she finds a new sense of pride while learning to pit cook a deer and fire roast a salmon.