Lexus x Complex produced a series for First We Feast called The Food Vanguard, and hired Hidden to handle creative and production. The team found two culinary trailblazers to profile in two episodes each.
Bon appetit.
ayesha jurdjaja
Brooklyn is diverse. People from everywhere raise families there, creating a dynamism unseen almost anywhere else. Brooklyn native Chef Ayesha Nurdjaja is a testament to the borough’s diversity. Chef and proprietor of New York restaurants Shuka and Shukette, Nurdjaja grew up in Gravesend, with an Indonesian dad and an Italian mom. Her father was a chef, but Nurdjaja says her mother was the family’s best cook. Early exposure to exquisite food at home drove her professional passion, pushing Chef Nurdjaja to explore Middle Eastern cuisine at her own restaurants.
Episode 1
Episode 2
eric sze
Eric Sze is a chef on a mission. Born and raised in Taiwan, he now makes New York his home. Sze’s the chef and owner of restaurants 886 and Wenwen, places he founded to further his mission of using Taiwanesse food to build bridges between his current life in the West and his family’s history in the East. That sounds like a big job, but as a chef and founder who left his home to create a new life in NYC, Sze is used to rising to the moment, no matter how big that moment may be.
Episode 1
Episode 2
