Family Ingredients

Host and Hawai’i chef Ed Kenney meets up with close friend singer-songwriter Jack Johnson and together they hit the road down the California coast. Along the way we learn much about the similarities of these two friends: their love of family, the ocean and their passion for the environment.

Host and Hawai’i chef Ed Kenney continues his adventures, but this time with Bravo’s Top Chef Fan Favorite Sheldon Simeon. Born and raised on the island of Hawaiʻi, Sheldon joins Ed in search of the original Pork Adobo recipe. The two chefs pack up and head to the Philippines. It is a trip of pure joy and excitement for a Filipino chef from Hawaiʻi who has never set eyes on his ancestral home.

In this episode, Family Ingredients is in the Midwest in search of a fern called Fiddlehead. Host and Hawai’i chef Ed Kenney is paired up with Kaua’i, Hawaiʻi farmer, Valerie Kaneshiro, who has both Japanese and Native American roots. Ed follows Valerie to Minneapolis where they meet up with a woman who is bringing back Native American fare.

Vietnamese American Chef Andrew Le of the wildly popular Pig & The Lady restaurant in Honolulu’s famous Chinatown joins Ed on a trip to Vietnam where his parents barely escaped the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The dish is Pho, pronounced FUH, Vietnam’s national dish. In part one, we visit Ho Chi Minh City in search of Vietnam’s national dish -- Pho.

Vietnamese American Chef Andrew Le of the wildly popular Pig & The Lady restaurant in Honolulu’s famous Chinatown joins Ed on a trip to Vietnam where his parents barely escaped the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The dish is Pho, pronounced FUH, Vietnam’s national dish. In part two, we visit Hanoi in search of Vietnam’s national dish -- Pho.

Hula practitioner and hunter, Anela Evans, born and raised on the island of Lanaʻi, Hawaiʻi, shares how living on a tiny island allows you to clearly see the world around you. She expresses poetically how she values everything -- from the land she walks on, the sea she swims in to the sky that gives her direction. Everything, for this Hawaiian woman, is deeply connected.