Brian Yazzie

Brian Yazzie, known as Yazzie the Chef is a Navajo chef. He celebrates and promotes Indigenous American foods.

He was born into the Navajo Nation in Dennehotso, Arizona. He moved to Minnesota in 2013.

In 2017, he became the chef de cuisine at Sean Sherman's the Sioux Chef.

In 2018, Yazzie and his wife Danielle Yazzie-Polk founded Intertribal Foodways, a catering company in St. Paul.

Yazzie is a member of I-Collective, a group of indigenous chefs, farmers, foragers, hunters, and food historians. He is also involved with Slow Food and was a delegate to Terra Madre Salone del Gusto in Turin, Italy and to Indigenous Terra Madre in Japan.