Chef Claudette Zepeda

@claudetteazepeda

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She/Her/Ella San Diego📍 Mexicana/🩸Indígena 👧🏻 of Immigrants/Mother Henry Crown @leu.leu.leucadia @wearechispahospitality Inquiries → @inovatory
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I am who I am💅🏽
Never forget where it all started 2025-10-10 22:19:03 I am who I am💅🏽 Nev.. 0 -100% 2 -89%
To all the women who have never been able to rest. The father figures 💫 I am one-I see you-I salute you. 2025-10-10 20:19:06 To all the women who h.. 0 -100% 32 +75%
🎤🎤🎤 PSA!! Who’s in South Carolina?! I can’t wait to be heading back to Charleston this November 14-16th for the second annual Food & Wine Classic in Charleston. 
Trust me you won’t want to miss it! The gang and I will be there all weekend and we’re going to be cooking and demo’ing some tasty food. 

#fwclassicCHS foodandwine 2025-10-09 20:45:13 🎤🎤🎤 PS.. 0 -100% 2 -89%
Anyone else unpack everything and settle into hotels like you live there? 2025-10-09 02:06:45 Anyone else unpack everyt.. 0 -100% 5 -73%
Settling into this new decade of my life quite well. Have my hands is so many beautiful projects and discovering new things that set my spirit on fire. Confidence in women does funny things to both men and women, some celebrate you and some are triggered by you. Shine bright anyways. No one, noooo oneeee knows the hell I have been through in my life to end up as this woman. I’m proud of her. 2025-10-07 22:23:36 Settling into this new .. 0 -100% 61 +233%
Movie Date at a Cemetery? Only if it’s a cult classic. Romance is not dead. katturnerwashere 🖤🖤

carlafernandezmx 👖🖤 2025-10-05 21:58:55 Movie Date .. 0 -100% 19 +4%
Speaking of the crew that holds it down. My Saturday night service babes💫💫💫. Leaving them is always hard, but the sense of relief that I have that they represent us/me, helps me continue to work to grow and make opportunities happen for all of us in our little magical portal in Leucadia. I keep them constantly supplied with string cheese, gushers, blooms. Best hearts in the business. Today is also Panchitas birthday 😭🖤🖤 the hardest working norteña i’ve had the pleasure of working next too. Love you babes. 2025-10-05 05:42:26 Spea.. 264 +2,400% 6 -67%
Las comadres, there is no better feeling than to know my kitchen is in the best hands and hearts. I’m not a perfect person or leader by a long shot. But I try. These three make it easy for me to try very hard (missing my other three ladies). Happy cooks, Happy Cheffy. 2025-10-05 05:24:13 Las comadres, there is .. 0 -100% 2 -89%
The newly coined, lucky silver skirt. From interviewing one of my food heroes ottolenghi for his latest book tour, to introducing a couple of my favorite humans chefmelissaking ellenmariebennett for Melissa’s new book Cook Like A King (buy this book). Thank you cherrybombe kerrybombe for having me! Great conversations and energy in every corner of the space. 

#lajubilee2025 2025-10-03 22:57:54 The newly coined, lucky.. 0 -100% 3 -84%
One of the men who’s inspired me endlessly in many creative flows. Staring at my book photography and re-reading the 68k + words I wrote. While realizing just how beautiful this journey has been…and how weird I am🤣 

Again, can’t wait to reveal it all to you. 
Grateful for the trust in my publishing team francis_lam and my studio team thedavidalvarado jasonsutherlandhsu (forgot you’re back on IG!) rn_foodstylist jacandginger isamar_checo for celebrating my freak flag during our week together. 2025-10-03 13:30:25 One of the men.. 0 -100% 4 -78%
Feliz Día Nacional del Maíz 🌽 🇲🇽 2025-09-30 02:46:23 Feliz Día Naci.. 0 -100% 4 -78%
Being a leader is a lot of the times, seeing where talent and interest lie in individuals and building the safe environment for them to grow so that they can find what truly resonates with their own professional and creative journeys. I know most chefs & owners don’t /shouldn’t see their employees as their kids, but I have never lead in an orthodox manner and she is my kids age! Watching jaidensteele_ bloom and gradually becoming who she is destined to become is a beautiful privilege as a leader. One of the most articulate, strong and mature souls on my team. Joins me in my alchemical world and is curious about everything. Happy 21st love, may I continue to be the leader you need in this endeavor and all the other opportunities that rise in the future. Love you -Chef Mama Bear 2025-09-24 00:23:19 Being a leader is a l.. 0 -100% 8 -56%
bourbonandbeyond Thank you for bringing me into the fold the last three years! Every year it gets bigger and better. santoscooks my Kentucky partner in crime, you’re the best. Thank you krogerchrispicks not sure if there’s a video of you surprising me with my Colonelship (is that the word?!) but it’s framed and right next to my beardfoundation nod. Chef noam_bilitzer and team, you crush it year after year. chefamandaf arianeduartechef thank you for the beautiful company!! Biggest thanks to dannywimmerpresents dannywimmer what a crew and event you all put on, constantly amazed. To making many more memories together in Louisville. 2025-09-23 08:07:36 bourbonandbeyond Th.. 0 -100% 6 -67%
Second Friendship Village in the books. What a doozy! Missed two of our clutch support beams of the night in the picture dsngdbyv alexislamborn. So proud to be leading this small and talented team, we can move mountains together. My chef line (of three, including me), my comadres never cease to amaze me & panchita!. Thank you shay_all_the_way for sharing your talent with us. We got our butts kicked and loved every minute of it. On nights like these, my industry folks can attest, it takes a long time to find sleep. But a shower, tea & a cookbook dummy to read and edit 288 pages of will do the trick. Grateful and inspired to welcome in Autumn. Menu overhaul coming up. See you soon. 2025-09-21 14:21:49 Second Friendship Village.. 0 -100% 4 -78%
Settling is not an option. Never has been, never will be.

📸: inovatory // #ClaudetteZepeda 2025-09-20 23:00:39 Settling is not an opt.. 0 -100% 89 +386%
Ever wanted to know how to make homemade chamoy? Here it is. 🍑🌶️

Sweet, tangy, and just the right amount of heat—perfect for fruit, rim dips, or anything that needs a little kick.

Ingredients:

1 cup dried apricot
1 cup of prunes 
1 cup hibiscus leaves
3 cups of water 
1/2 cup of sugar
1 pinch of salt
1/2 cup of chili powder (korean gochugaru works great) in bar closet
1 orange 
3 limes 

Instructions:

In pot add water, dried apricots and prunea with hibiscus leaves. Cook for 10 min on medium heat

Remove from heat and Strain (reserve liquid). blend everything together until smooth (use reserved liquid if needed and pour back In pot.

Add sugar, salt and chili powder, stir over low heat until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat to cool completely.

Stir in orange juice and lime juice, mix and ready to use over fruit or your homemade tostilocos! 2025-09-20 01:48:47 .. 0 -100% 19 +4%
Feliz cumpleaños mi amor 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 of all the things that I am, aside from Motherhood, being 100% Mexicana is my biggest honor. She’s not perfect, but she’s ours. Nuestra tierra linda y querida, hoy y por siempre seré orgullosa de tener mi corazón siempre con las ganas de regresar. 2025-09-16 21:25:03 .. 0 -100% 7 -62%
From the archives, I led the first restaurant to be on the long list in SD in 2016 but being the first chef to be nominated beardfoundation in SD in 2019 was even more special 🥹 feels like it was an eternity ago! Not the short list, but it still counts. Just dawned on me how many achievements that I haven’t enjoyed or even sat with the realization that they were achieved. Something to work on while on my next #caminodesantigo pilgrimage. 2025-09-13 14:52:08 From the archives, I.. 0 -100% 3 -84%
She’ll light up the room with her laugh, but don’t mistake that glow for softness. She knows her worth, and she only listens when it’s real. Say what you mean or don’t say anything at all. <3 2025-09-13 01:28:19 She’ll light up t.. 0 -100% 21 +15%
There are no coincidences, no accidents, no luck. Preparedness meeting opportunities. “Yes, I am high maintenance, but I can maintain myself” energy. Making little me proud with every adventure that I say yes to🥹. 2025-09-10 23:18:46 There are no coinc.. 0 -100% 5 -73%
Live 
Laugh 
Love 2025-09-10 00:08:05 Live Laugh Love 0 -100% 51 +178%
Half of my why. Showing my babies the world so they never settle for crumbs. 2025-09-06 23:54:02 Half of my why. Showing m.. 0 -100% 7 -62%
My baby is 20 today😭 the truest ride or die a mom could ever ask for. Her middle name personifies everything she is and the tough lessons that it comes with. Love is my biggest teacher and if you’ve been in her company and she has felt safe around you, you’ve seen her magic. The best judge of character, if she warns me of someone, it’s always 100% true. I can’t wait to see what she does in this life. Love you baby. 2025-09-03 21:54:14 My baby is 20 .. 0 -100% 44 +140%
When I say, I am my ancestors wildest dreams, it’s not just a cute bumper sticker tag line.

I come from a long line of healers, painters, sculptors, poets & musicians. None of whom were able to foster their creative souls, instead raised children, worked factories, fields, cleaned houses, waited on men who never saw them, etc. 
I remember watching my Tía Lili spend weeks on her Faberge eggs that were made from dried egg shells and sculpted over and hand painted. Or going cross eyed painting the bust of Queen Nefertiti and King Tut. My abue would sit and sing with my uncle the songs he had written. The drawings my mother drew for me as a baby, I remember vividly, most lost to time and abrupt life changes. 

I’ve been writing since I was a kid. (Proud of my Hemingway poetry prize in 7th grade). To have a poem that I wrote be read by hundreds, week after week is just one of the ways that I can honor my ancestors. Thank you to dsngdbyv for turning my poem into art.

Supporting immigrants & children of immigrants means creating ripples in our history. 🙏🏽 Thank you. 2025-09-03 08:57:40 When I say, I .. 0 -100% 15 -18%
leu.leu.leucadia is special because of every hand that brought her to life. Grateful that you saw her and got it thegordinier Thank you artfullivingmag 🙏🏽 
Every time I move into a restaurant space that is designed beautifully (shout out sistersof4corners ) I begin to think, “now, how do I make this a home, my home, our home”. How to add to bajaleu legit vinyl record collection and be worthy of sharing space with the artists of said records. 
Chefs spend more time in their restaurants than their own homes, our friends come and visit us at work, or they would never see us. That’s the beauty of food and being the caretaker of a space, we can inject it with warmth with our energy, intention and details. I obsess over the things most people dismiss. 
Type of soap/lotion, candle smell in bathroom, check presenters (pause to read the poem Jeff mentions, written by me/designed by dsngdbyv), dessert vessels, vintage tableware (shout out foundaroundgrl ), chiclets in the bathroom and mouthwash, emergency pads and tampons for the girlies. It all matters. Into our 9th month, wild and beautiful, ready to welcome fall equinox in a few weeks. 2025-09-03 07:48:23 leu.leu.leuca.. 0 -100% 39 +113%

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