Prix Fixe Podcast

Erin Detroit Vesey is a queer cyclist and chef living in Los Angeles. They have worked all over the city and most recently owned their own queer centered cycling cafe, Detroit Vesey’s. They're also a seven time participant in AIDS/Lifecycle, an annual 545 mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I typically rode with Erin once a week into the hills and mountains of Southern California, an...

Giovanna Musumeci is a master pastry chef and dessert empress of the highest magnitude. She is the multi-generational owner of Pasticceria Santo Musumeci a pastry and gelato shop that is arguably the heart center of Randazzo, Sicily - a small town nestled in the foothills of Mount Etna, the tallest active stratovolcano in Europe. Show Notes Follow Giovanna's Instagram Visit Pasticceria Santo Musum...

Arnold Byun has always been interested in building the infrastructure surrounding the experience of food and culture via his impeccable taste, drive and refusal to compromise. His resume includes fine dining juggernauts 11 Madison Park and Atomix, creating his own pop up takeaway NAEMO in LA, and is currently the founder of Maum Market, a marketplace celebrating Korean-American makers and business...

Marti Buckley is an American writer, chef, and cultural expert hailing from Alabama, who has lived in Basque Country since 2010. She's the author of the acclaimed cookbooks 'Basque Country' and 'The Book of Pintxos,' each detailing and archiving the immense cultural gastronomic significance of Euskadi.  Show Notes: Marti Buckley 'The Book of Pintxos' 'Basque Country' Bottega Restaurant Marmitako r...

Alex Garcia and Elvia Huerta own and operate 'Evil Cooks' a death metal themed pop up experience based in Los Angeles. They describe it as “new-traditional Mexican food with an evil twist." With shades of fine dining on the streets. Their “HELL MENU” contains items such as “the Prince of Darkness burrito”, “chilla(kill)es torta”, the McSatan bacon cheeseburger taco. They even offer a reservations-...

Stacey Mei Yan Fong  is a home baker living in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Singapore, lived in Indonesia, grew up in Hong Kong, and moved to the States to pursue a degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She spent a decade designing in the fashion industry, and during that time she launched her "50 Pies, 50 States" project which led to her slinging pies at Four and Twenty Blackbirds...

Meet Katherine Lewin . She is one of my oldest friends dating all the way back nearly 30 years ago, when we first met in preschool. She’s always been a kindred spirit, particularly when it comes to food. In high school, she had an encyclopedic knowledge of every worthwhile restaurant in our hometown - a characteristic which I thought to be extremely cool. After working in fashion and as the editor...

Jacqueline Blanchard is a 10th generation Cajun from Bayou Lafourche in Southeast Louisiana’s Assumption Parish. Her family fled Nova Scotia during the Acadian exile and settled into the Lafourche Valley in the late 1700’s as farmers, and they’ve been there ever since. Cooking has always been in the fabric of her family - taking part in traditions such as crawfish boils in the Spring and the old C...

Pete Treiber, Junior has always wanted to work in a creative field — he just didn't know it would happen so literally. He started as a camp counselor, granola maker, photo and video production assistant, and more before digging into the farm with his Pop, and he brings both his clever resourcefulness and his playful perspective to every bulb of garlic he grows. He's an artist and farmer who left t...

Marian Cooper Cairns is a food stylist and recipe developer based in Los Angeles with 20 years of experience in the food industry. Originally from Alabama, she still sports a southern accent and is known for making really bad food puns on social media and can make you a darn great buttermilk biscuit, just ask. When she is not poking at food with tweezers she loves to talk about all things Pimento...

As a storyteller, Hak Lonh looks to food as a way to share the rich history of Cambodia and its complex cuisine. Hak is Cambodian-Chinese-American. He was born in a refugee camp on the border of Thailand and Cambodia. His family immigrated to the US when he was a toddler. They fled, fought and eventually escaped the horrors of “The Killing Fields”, landing in Pennsylvania. His father, Kim, was abl...

Nathalie Jordi, in tandem with ASH NYC, developed the 71-room Hotel Peter & Paul in a former Catholic school, rectory, church and convent in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans. Previously, she was a cofounder of people’s pops (an ice pop manufacturer and retailer in New York City), as well as a travel journalist, bicycle guide, and cheesemonger. She lives in the Marigny with her husband and t...

Andy Kadin made his way from New Jersey to L.A. to pursue a career as a writer. But after 10 years of successful unhappiness writing for TV and advertising, something had to change. He always had quiet designs on a life in food and scrambled to take as many restaurant jobs and stages as he could, working in a pub, a sandwich shop, and several bakeries. Kadin committed to baking bread every day, gi...

After earning a degree in Sustainable Agriculture, Kristin got her start in restaurants cooking in the Bay Area.  She joined the front of house team at Saison, where she was first exposed to French wine.  She has been a sommelier at Straight Wharf Restaurant in Nantucket, Husk Nashville, Osteria Mozza and Gigi’s Los Angeles. She is the Founder + CEO of Nomadica Wine where she thoughtfully curates...

With global fine-dining experience, a deep appreciation for sustainably-sourced seafood and local farmers market produce, Chef Brandon Gray (aka Brandoni Pepperoni) is Los Angeles’ Wizard of ‘Za. At the age of 18, Gray joined the United States Navy as a deckhand but quickly assumed a role as a cook after showing enthusiasm for the kitchen. He spent the next three years honing his skills and prepar...

Katie Parla is a Rome-based food and beverage journalist, culinary guide, educator, award-winning cookbook author, and Emmy nominated television host. She has written, edited, or contributed to more than 30 books and co-hosts Gola, a podcast about Italian food culture. Originally from New Jersey, she has an art history degree from Yale, a master’s degree in Italian Gastronomic Culture from the Uni...

Los Angeles-based Richard Christiansen is the founder of global creative agency, Chandelier Creative, the Los Angeles bookstore, Owl Bureau and lifestyle brand, Flamingo Estate. Christiansen, who grew up in rural Australia, had a thirst for art and entertainment which led him on endeavors and the creation of his design-led creative agency, Chandelier Creative. It was from his creative work on a ro...

Wonderwerk House Of Fermentation was born in Los Angeles after a long night on a disco dancefloor where lifelong friends, Andrew Lardy and Issamu Kamide, became inspired to create natural wines which express the inclusivity and joy found through music. In a world which has been traditionally exclusive, Wonderwerk seeks to create wines that are approachable, fun, and delicious, delighting everyone...

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