Executive chef Shane Chartrand, featured on the hit Food Network show Chopped, incorporates his culture and heritage into the menu at River Cree Resort and Casino and the eatery SC.
Edmonton may not exactly be the first city that comes to mind when you’re thinking of global culinary hotspots.Chartrand is the executive chef at the River Cree Resort and Casino and the face behind SC, one of the resort’s six eateries. “Damn good food by chef Shane Chartrand,” is the restaurant’s tagline, and that’s what it offers: contemporary Canadian cuisine that’s affordable, casual and delicious.
Since becoming a chef, he has expanded that knowledge, searching across Canada for unusual ingredients sourced from the forests and land around him: reindeer moss, bison, venison, cattails, saskatoons. The smoked bison brisket is a current offering, and then there’s the bison meatloaf. Served with a smoked tomato sauce and a mound of fluffy whipped potatoes, it is one of Chartrand’s most popular dishes, he says.
“This cookbook is literally my life — my travels, the Indigenous communities that I am part of, and the people who support what Indigenous people do,” Chartrand says.“The idea is to bridge cultures and give people my stories and a taste of what’s out there.” That’s an approach that Chartrand brings to his own cuisine. “I try to keep things interesting,” he says with a chuckle. “We’re busy all the time.”
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