The Brando Cultural Portrait featuring: Hereiti Seaman

We're pleased to share our next Cultural Portrait featuring Vegan Chef, Hereiti Seaman.
• Her career
Originally from Bora Bora, Hereiti Seaman became a vegetarian at the age of 15 out of concern for the protection of animals and the planet. A few years later she decided to settle in the Marquesas islands with her partner to better anchor herself to the earth and connect to the elements. Hiva Oa is where Hereiti became vegan, learned about growing organic fruits and vegetables, and wrote her first cookbook. It was also in Hiva Oa that she started doing yoga. Since graduating as a yoga teacher in 2018, she has been teaching yoga and organizing wellness and spiritual retreats.
• Her cuisine
Hereiti is convinced that food is the basis of our life, that what we eat can be a source of healing for the body and soul. She incorporates as many local and organic foods as possible into her cuisine and draws inspiration from her travels abroad to bring a creative and mixed touch. She creates tasty and gourmet dishes from a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, oilseeds, legumes, cereals, plants and edible roots.
• Her values
Hereiti has chosen a diet that is in line with her ethical, environmental and spiritual values. True to her values, she helps people achieve healing through yoga, love and plant-based food. She has also created an association for the protection of the environment, TUTUKI E HO, with the aim of raising awareness among the population about the protection of biodiversity by changing their habits and finding alternative solutions to pollutants.
• The partnership with The Brando
At The Brando, Hereiti finds values similar to her own. With Chef Pierre Lecorne, she works on local food compositions, some coming directly from the hotel's vegetable garden, to integrate healthy, nutritious and vegetable dishes into the menus of The Brando restaurants. For her, training on products and techniques and raising the awareness of the teams of the central kitchen as well as the staff village kitchen are the keys to the success of this partnership.