Loud Indigenous Food with Pyet DeSpain

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

Native, Documentary, Pop Culture, Society & Culture, Relationships, Indigenous, Native American, Society, Contemporary Native American Culture

5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this nourishing conversation, Matika and Temryss sit down with Pyet DeSpain (Prairie Band Potawatomi and Mexican), chef, entrepreneur, storyteller, and the first-ever winner of Gordon Ramsay’s Next Level Chef. Fresh from finishing her debut cookbook, Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking, Pyet shares the streams that brought her to this monumental point in her career and together we explore the meaning of being rooted in fire: cooking with passion, with purpo...

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0:00.0	Hello, relatives. Welcome back to all my relations. I'm Matica Wilbur, Swinamish, and Tlilip tribal member.
0:06.3	I'm a mama of two adorable girls. So adorable.
0:10.7	So adorable. I think they're so cute. They're mine. They're the cutest. I'm a wifey. I just had my anniversary last night. I'm surviving being a wife.
0:19.4	My husband is surviving me.
0:22.1	And I'm the co-host of this fine podcast.
0:25.5	Hi, everyone.
0:26.9	My name is Temris Lane from Lummi Nation.
0:30.0	I also am a wifey unofficially, soon to be.
0:35.2	We'll see.
0:36.5	And a mama, a strategist, a storyteller, a sister,
0:42.5	and I couldn't be more thrilled than to be joined by another incredible indigenous woman,
0:49.0	Piet de Spain, prairie band Potawatomi and Mexican,
0:53.8	most notably known for winning the first season ever
0:57.4	of Next Level Chef Gordon Ramsey's show.
1:00.4	Piet, thank you so much for joining us.
1:02.7	Thanks for having me.
1:04.2	Bonjour, Piet Wittmukwe and Deshna Gajmushkotini, Badawadami, and Tao.
1:09.2	I am Piet. Piet Wittmokwe is my indigenous given name. It was a name passed
1:14.5	down by my great-grandmother, Cecilia Mitchell, and the Purban Potawatwami Nation resides in Mejeda, Kansas,
1:23.0	and I'm also Mexican-American, and I also have indigenous roots to Sousak and Fox Nation as well from Oklahoma.
1:29.6	And what is Piet mean?
1:31.4	So Piet Wemokee is loosely.
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