Pyet DeSpain

Global Private Chef; Los Angeles, CA

Pyet DeSpain is an award winning and global private chef. She is the first winner of Gordon Ramsay's new groundbreaking TV show Next Level Chef on Fox. In 2021, Pyet was acknowledged as one of the Top 25 Best Private Chefs in Los Angeles by Entrepreneur magazine and in fall 2023 she was named Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University. A member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Tribe, she grew up on the Osage Indian Reservation in Oklahoma. Her life's work is dedicated to Indigenous American fusion cuisine, where she combines the food of her heritage - both Native American and Mexican. Pyet's passion is to uplift Indigenous culture and traditions via storytelling, traveling, and cooking. @chefpyet (Instagram)