Food Tastes Better Outside: A Forager's Feast

The plot

Cam MacArthur 2020 Canada 7:10

Featuring local chef, freediver, forager and 2019's Top Chef Canada Winner Paul Moran. Known for always bringing a piece of the wild into his dishes. Just how we like them.⁠

⁠For this special festive episode of the delicious series of Ecologyst's Food Tastes Better Outside, join the group to travel across Vancouver Island to Tofino before this wave of lockdowns. Breathing in the salt air deeply, and revelling in the abundant foods British Columbia's local coastline offers if you know where to look. Lucky for us, Chef Paul Moran knows exactly that — splitting the day between fishing from the boat and watching him freedive to watery depths before popping up with foraged sea urchins, kelp, and crab. 

A festive, winter feast of a different kind. It's inspired us to play with what we serve up on our holiday table, and reminded us how much we'd been missing dining communally with good friends.

****Be sure to head out with a knowledgeable guide when first delving into the world of foraging. And never eat something you can't identify with certainty.⁠

Director Biography

Cam MacArthur is a film director with Ecologyst Films from Victoria BC who has found a niche in short conservation-based documentaries. His directorial debut about Ocean plastics, “Plastic Beach”, was chosen to screen at the Omnimax theatre in Science World for the Elements International Film Festival, and since then Cam has directed a number of short films that cover topics from overfishing in the Salish Sea, to preserving British Columbia’s remaining ancient forests.

Director Statement

I am a self-taught, documentary filmmaker based in Victoria BC. For the past three years I have been the director ecologyst films', the production house created by ecologyst clothing. This experience has brought me into the world of conservation and environmental storytelling which has been the back bone of many of my films. My future ambitions include feature length documentaries, focusing on the outdoors, conservation and inspiring ways of living.

• Age Rating General (12 and under)
• Running time 00:07:10 mins



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