Pyet DeSpain

Pyet's Plate - Los Angeles, CA

Pyet is is a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and an award-winning traveling private chef. She is the first winner of Gordon Ramsay’s Next Level Chef, a competitor on Tournament of Champions, and a judge on Super Market Stakeout. She is the author of the cookbook Rooted in Fire, which celebrates Indigenous Fusion cuisine rooted in Native American and Mexican foodways. Pyet DeSpain is the executive producer and host of the PBS series Spirit Plate, a traveling culinary show that visits Indigenous communities to highlight ancestral foodways, living traditions, and the people preserving them today. Her work is dedicated to uplifting Indigenous foodways through education, visibility, and storytelling while advocating for sustainable, sovereign food systems for Indigenous peoples within the modern culinary industry