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Family Ingredients

Wisconsin Fiddlehead Fern

Valerie Kaneshiro was raised on the La Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin.

Aired 10/12/2017

Family Ingredients

Wisconsin Fiddlehead Fern

Preview: Season 2 Episode 3 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions

Valerie Kaneshiro was raised on the La Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin.

Valerie Kaneshiro, a mixture of Japanese and Native American, was raised on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin, her mom’s ancestral home. Forced to leave her home at 15, disconnected from her Indian roots she so loved, Valerie tells a story of loss and rediscovery and all the lessons learned while sharing an ingredient to a cultural dish found in Wisconsin and Hawaii.

Aired 10/12/2017

Ojibwa

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Hawai‘i chef Ed Kenney visits the Lac Courtes Oreilles Community College in Wisconsin. (2m 25s)

Tashia Hart

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Tashia Hart is part of an emerging food movement of young Native American chefs. (3m 26s)

Ueunten Foraging

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Different varieties of fiddlehead fern are used in traditional Ojibwe and Hawaiian dishes. (1m 26s)

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