THE CHEF

Born in Berkeley, CA, Natchez Lee fell in love with cooking at a very young age. During their time at Willard Middle School, they participated in the first and second years of the Growing Leaders Program, an elective which utilized ingredients grown by students to sell meals to the community cooked by students.

After graduating high school in June of 2020, they soon began similarly selling meals to neighbors, before working in several kitchens in Oakland. In 2022 they packed up and moved to Nashville, TN, where they worked in two restaurants, Etch and Henrietta Red.

In 2024, they decided to move back to Berkeley, and have been working as a Chef de Partie at Merchant Roots in San Francisco, as well as staging at several restaurants throughout the Bay Area.