Zakary Pelaccio

Zakary, along with partner Patrick Milling Smith owns Fish & Game in Hudson, NY, for which he won the JBFA for Best Chef NE in 2016. Esquire named F&G one of the 40 Most Important Restaurants of the Decade. In NYC, Pelaccio created legendary joints Fatty Crab and Fatty ‘Cue before moving to the woods with his wife, fermentationist and alchemist, Jori Jayne Emde. He is also a partner in BackBar, a Southeast Asian inspired bohemian booze garden. Pelaccio penned two cookbooks: Eat With Your Hands and Project No. 258 – Making Dinner at Fish & Game. In his free time, he produces two festivals: Peripheral Natural Wine and Fermentation Festival™ and Play With Fire™, a live-fire cooking event.