Food

Spirit Plate

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.

Cooking a 400-Pound Pig in an Underground Oven

14m 43s

On the lush island of Oʻahu, Chef Pyet DeSpain joins her friend Kealoha Domingo and his family to prepare a sacred Hawaiian coming-of-age feast—complete with a 400-pound roasted pig, taro from hidden valleys, and a Spirit Plate offering to the Creator.

Episodes

  • Cooking a 400-Pound Pig in an Underground Oven: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Cooking a 400-Pound Pig in an Underground Oven

    E4 - 14m 43s

    On the lush island of Oʻahu, Chef Pyet DeSpain joins her friend Kealoha Domingo and his family to prepare a sacred Hawaiian coming-of-age feast—complete with a 400-pound roasted pig, taro from hidden valleys, and a Spirit Plate offering to the Creator.

  • 500 Dancers. One Chef. One Sacred Stew: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    500 Dancers. One Chef. One Sacred Stew

    E2 - 15m 35s

    In this powerful homecoming episode, Chef Pyet DeSpain returns to her Potawatomi Nation—feeding sacred bison, reuniting with family, and preparing a feast of bison stew for the tribe’s largest powwow of the year, where hundreds of dancers and dozens of tribes gather in celebration.

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