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Outdoorsman, veteran chef with many years of fine dining experience, renegade, innovator, he is one of the most influential chefs in north america. he is also a proud quebecua and perhaps he has designed for a new generations what that means. he is an unlikely ambassador for his country and his province. but maybe not so unlikely. i mean look at him. out for a day trapping beaver with local trapper carl. >> no. >> so the bait is wood? >> yeah, they just eat the bark. >> they eat the bark? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> in pioneer days, beaver was the financial engine of canada. >> yeah. >> empires we...

>> to a lesser extent, the tradition continues today. carl continues to trap. usually called on by provincial officials to trap beaver and clear away dams and control what could become a destructively overpopulated situation. >> hello, my little friend. >> this is a young one. and those are the ones we want to hit. >> what would you compare the meat to. is there anything like it? >> that's the thing. there's nothing like it. you know, when you eat beaver, you understand that it's beaver. >> along with an encyclopedic knowledge of fine wines and inexplicable attachment to the music of celine di...

Of canada? >> yeah. >> empires were built on it. every hat practically in the world was made of a beaver pelt. >> that's why today it's the icon of canada. >> to a lesser extent the tradition continues today. carl continues to trap, usually called on by provincial officials to trap beaver and clear away dams of what could become a destructly overpopulated situation. >> hello, my little friend. >> this is a young one. those are the ones we want to eat. >> what would you compare the meat to? is there anything like it? >> that's the thing, you know. there's nothing like it. you know, when you eat...

Every hat practically in the world was made of a beaver pelt. >> that's why today it's the icon of canada. >> to a lesser extent the tradition continues today. carl continues to trap, usually called on by provincial officials to trap beaver and clear away dams of what could become a destructly overpopulated situation. >> hello, my little friend. >> this is a young one. those are the ones we want to eat. >> what would you compare the meat to? is there anything like it? >> that's the thing, you know. there's nothing like it. you know, when you eat beaver, you understand that it's beaver. >> mart...

Martin picard is such a man. a heretofore unencountered hybrid of rut outdoorsman, veteran chef with many years of fine dining experience, renegade, innovator, he is one of the most influential chefs in north america. he is also a proud quebecois, and perhaps he more than everyone else has defined for a new generation of americans and canadians what that means. he's an unlikely ambassador for his country and province. but maybe not so unlikely. i mean, look at him. out trapping beaver with local trapper carl. >> no? >> so the bait is wood? >> yeah, just the bark. >> they eat the bark? >> yeah,...