Prix Fixe Podcast Jordan Haro

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 owners.

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.

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-only Kamikaze prix fixe menu cementing their boundless creativity in showing you how exciting better tasting food can be.

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 Pie Shop. Now, her pies have been featured by CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, Eater, and beyond. 

After working in fashion and as the editor for a major food journalism outlet, Katherine opened BIG NIGHT - a New York-based brick and mortar selling everything you need for an epic dinner party - food, drink, kitchenware, glassware, etc. Everything is brilliantly curated from talented makers from across the world.

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 Cajun boucheries each fall. Her star studded resume' includes working alongside the best of the best at Benu, Bouchon, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, all while intensely traveling across Asia whenever her schedule allowed. In 2015, she moved back home to New Orleans to open Coutelier, a highly curated knife shop focusing on hand forged Japanese cutlery - a business decision she felt was based on the needs of her peers and fellow cooking community of South Louisiana. She and her business partner travel annually to Japan, sourcing the tools of this ancient craft they have come to foster an immense respect and understanding towards. Their goal is to support and promote the unrivaled focus of the multi-generation craftsmanship executed by Japanese blacksmiths who hand forge professional cutlery and tools for their culinary community. Her love for Japanese culture and cuisine and technique has deepened immensely along the way, and she will be opening her first restaurant, Sukeban in Spring of 2022.