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Zak Pelaccio held a number of positions in the food industry before pursuing a career as a chef..

5 NINTH & FATTY CRAB | New York.

Celebrity chef speaker Zakary Pelaccio is a restaurateur, cookbook author, and television personality, best known for his Fatty Crab and Fatty 'Cue restaurants.

Zak Pelaccio held a number of positions in the food industry before pursuing a career as a chef.

The magic of Fatty 'Cue is the marriage of Zak Pelaccio's forceful Malaysian flavors and pitmaster Robbie Richter's skills with smoked meats.

Chef Zak Pelaccio, who's spreading the word about Malaysian food around the globe, shares his recent dish discoveries.

ZAKARY PELACCIO
Fatty Crab

Zakary Pelaccio is Creative Director of The Fatty Crew, which owns and operates three locations of Fatty Crab, the critically-acclaimed Southeast Asian 'joints' focusing on Malay cuisine, and Fatty 'Cue, where American BBQ blends with Asian flavors.

He most recently embarked on a handful of kiosk operations called Fatty Snack. His restaurants reflect the distinctive facets of his classical training at The French Culinary Institute, stints at The French Laundry and Daniel, and time spent living and working in Europe and Asia.

Zakary is a dedicated supporter of local and sustainable practices, a board member of Heritage Foods USA, and a founding partner of The Cooking Room.

ZAKARY PELACCIO

Fatty Crab

MALAYSIAN

Recipes

How do you characterize your cuisine?

Rigorously sourced seasonal products subjected to a Southeast Asian culinary sensibility...but not always.

Or as the late, great Gil Scott-Heron would say, "File me under miscellaneous."