Rez Chef on TV

Health conscious:  Cooking show features Native foods, cultureSimply by reading package labels and substituting healthier or more traditional alternatives in recipes in the months since, Perez has lost more weight--a total of 25 pounds--and stumbled on a new mini-career in the process.

She's co-host, along with Genevieve King, of a new cooking show, “Rez Chef,” that premiered earlier this week on KSKC-TV, the public television station at Salish Kootenai College.

King and Perez--and their guests--weave cooking and healthier lifestyles in with Indian tradition and culture on the half-hour program.