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Yurok Secrets to Cooking the Perfect Pacific Eel

An immersive culinary adventure that takes viewers deep into the heart of Native America, guided by award-winning celebrity Chef Pyet DeSpain (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation). Each episode drops audiences into a new and breathtaking landscape—deserts, forests, plains, and coastlines—where Chef Pyet joins Indigenous communities to gather, fish, hunt, and cook in the spirit of ancestral tradition.

Yurok Secrets to Cooking the Perfect Pacific Eel

Season 1 Episode 1 | 15m 18s | CC

In this episode of SPIRIT PLATE, Chef Pyet DeSpain journeys to Northern California’s Yurok homelands, where she fishes for Pacific eel, visits a bustling farmers market, and cooks a coastal feast for Yurok families in a traditional seaside village.

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