, documenting Syilx storyteller Tracey Kim Bonneausa国际传媒檚 search for a truly healthy meal, returns for a second season on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network this week.
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Bonneau, a member of the Penticton Indian Band, writes, produces and stars in the series, which combines her love of good food with telling the story of traditional foods, practices and the people that prepare them.
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Another elder showed her some of her techniques for keeping fit: one of them is tanning hides.
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Making documentaries and using technology came early too. At powwows, she would borrow the tape recorder her mom used to record bone game songs. I used to take the recorder and
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But putting together a show like Quest Out West takes more than a single person.
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The series is set in the beauty of Okanagansa国际传媒檚 outdoors and naturesa国际传媒檚 wild food gardens. Bonneau says this series starts with the Okanagan Indian Band in Vernon, with filming at Osa国际传媒橩eefe Ranch, before travelling through the territory sa国际传媒� and a side trip to the coast for a visit to the Nuu-chah-nulth territory.
Local places featured this season include the Grist Mill, Pure Similkameen Valley Honey, Twisted Hills Craft Cider, the Ashnola powwow campsite, ECOmmunity Place at the Penticton Indian Band and Summerhill Pyramid Winery.
For viewers, itsa国际传媒檚 a visual feast of thirteen more delicious stories shared by foodie elders, historians and organic wineries and growers. They break bread over stress-free, gorgeous, simply prepared healthy meals.
Guests include Duane Howard from the film Revenant; and local actor Mariel Belanger from the Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
In Western Canada viewers will be able to watch the show on APTN, on either the West (SD) or HD feed. The show will be on at 7:30 pm Pacific time in B.C. and at 8:30 p.m. mountain time in Alberta. The series will be aired across Canada, so viewers of APTN will be able to watch this time slot in their respective time zones.
