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About Eduardo & Elizabeth Espiritu Eduardo and Elizabeth Espiritu are a husband-and-wife chef team who built their careers and their relationship inside professional kitchens. Eduardo was born in the Philippines and developed an early interest in cooking through watching his mother at home. Elizabeth grew up in Palm Springs, California, baking with her aunt from […]

About Chef Thomas Bille Chef Thomas Bille is a first-generation Mexican-American raised in Los Angeles, where a multicultural upbringing and a chef father shaped his earliest understanding of food. After enrolling in a Le Cordon Bleu culinary program in his late twenties, Bille trained in top Los Angeles kitchens including the Ritz-Carlton and Otium under

About Chef David Breeden Chef David Breeden is one of the most technically accomplished chefs in American fine dining. He spent over a decade at The French Laundry in Yountville, California — Thomas Keller’s three-Michelin-star flagship — rising to the position of Chef de Cuisine. In that role he oversaw daily kitchen operations, maintained the

About Ali Clem Ali Clem is the pitmaster and owner of La Barbecue in Austin, Texas — one of the most celebrated barbecue destinations in the country and among the first to earn recognition from the Michelin Guide. Ali took over La Barbecue after the passing of her partner John Lewis, who co-founded the trailer

About Chad Solomon Chad Solomon is one of the most respected figures in the American craft cocktail movement. He built his foundational career at Milk & Honey in New York City — the legendary speakeasy that changed how serious cocktail bars operated — where he trained under Sasha Petraske and helped establish the service standards

About Chef Patrick Mitchell Chef Patrick Mitchell, CEC, AAC, is one of the most decorated competition chefs in American culinary history. A graduate of The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, he built his career through decades of work in professional kitchens before becoming Executive Chef and Culinary Adviser for Ben E.

About Travis Petersen & Dan Kennedy Travis Petersen, known as The Nomad Cook, is a self-taught chef and culinary entrepreneur from Vancouver, British Columbia. He first gained national attention after appearing on MasterChef Canada in 2016, then pivoted from a career in oil and gas to build The Nomad Cook — a traveling pop-up dinner

About Chef Eric LeVine Eric LeVine is a CIA-trained chef who grew up in Brooklyn, New York and built one of the more decorated careers in American culinary and catering. After graduating from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, he trained under David Burke at the River Café before rising to Chef de

About Chef David Breeden David Breeden is the Chef de Cuisine of The French Laundry in Yountville, California — Thomas Keller’s three-Michelin-star restaurant and one of the most demanding and celebrated kitchens in the world. He is only the fourth chef de cuisine in the restaurant’s history, succeeding Timothy Hollingsworth in 2013, and has helped

About Edgar Rico & Sara Mardanbigi Edgar Rico is the chef and co-owner of Nixta Taqueria in East Austin. In a single awards season he received the MICHELIN Young Chef Award and the James Beard Award for Emerging Chef — two of the most significant recognitions available to a working chef — alongside placement on