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Archaeologist Breck Parkman, left, Ed Kenney, Patrick Garcia and Kuana Torres Kahele toured Rancho Petaluma Adobe in Petaluma, Calif., while delving into the history of vaqueros, or Mexican cowboys.
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Two episodes from the locally produced “Family Ingredients” PBS food and travel series will screen March 13 at CAAMFest 2016, a film festival presented by the Center for Asian American Media in San Francisco.
Screening as two minidocumentaries, the half-hour episodes will feature local chef-restaurateur Ed Kenney, host of the show, exploring kalo farms on Oahu and Kauai, and local musician Kuana Torres Kahele, who belongs to a Big Island paniolo family, traveling to San Francisco to meet chef Traci Des Jardins. Des Jardins cooks up machaca, a Mexican dried beef that bears a resemblance to pipikaula.
The show delves into the history of vaqueros, Mexican cowboys who came to Hawaii to teach their trade to local men who became paniolo.
Kenney and producers Dan Nakasone and Heather Giugni will attend CAAMFest. The series is directed by Ty Sanga.
Six episodes comprise the first season of “Family Ingredients,” to begin airing in early July. The show also travels to Okinawa, Tahiti, Puerto Rico and Tokyo.
Though the series has yet to air, the hourlong pilot won an Emmy in 2014. That episode explored chef Alan Wong’s food roots, both in Wahiawa and Japan. (The upcoming Tokyo episode is a half-hour version of the pilot.) “Family Ingredients” is the first locally produced show picked up by PBS for its prime-time lineup.
