Private Estate Chef · Private Tour Chef
Lindy Howell
Refined, health-conscious cooking for private homes, estates, and touring artists. For more than twenty years, her clients have asked her back season after season.
Refined, health-conscious cooking for private homes, estates, and touring artists. For more than twenty years, her clients have asked her back season after season.
I came to food through art. I studied sculpture in Texas before I ever wore whites, and it still shows up on the plate.
I earned my Grand Diploma at the International Culinary Center in New York, with an externship at Jean-Georges' ABC Kitchen and an internship with the James Beard Foundation. Les Dames d'Escoffier awarded me their 2016 scholarship. Since then I have cooked on offshore vessels, in Manhattan catering kitchens, on arena tours across three continents, and in private homes from Kauai to Nantucket to the Swiss Alps.
Private work runs on seasons and tours. That is the shape of the job. What I am proud of is that my clients come back. The same family three seasons running. The same tour four years straight. One estate post I held for four years across three countries.
Whether it is a quiet family dinner, a training table for a wellness founder, or a hundred plates backstage, the food is the same: seasonal, honest, and made with care.
Seasonal and full-time private residence work. Daily family meals, entertaining, provisioning across properties, and a kitchen that runs quietly in the background of your home.
Tour and residency catering for artists and their teams. Real food on the road, built around show days, travel days, and the way a crew actually eats.
Health-conscious menus and medical dietary cooking, including Alpha-Gal Syndrome, allergen management, and recipe development for wellness platforms.
Dinner parties, holidays, weddings, and celebrations, from an intimate table for two to full plated service for a room.
Before that, ten years with one tour catering house, cooking for Taylor Swift, Foo Fighters, Keith Urban, Chris Stapleton, Dave Matthews, and Zac Brown Band.
In private homes, I have cooked for families and public figures in Silicon Valley, Kauai, Nantucket, the Hamptons, Nashville, and abroad. Their names stay private. That is part of the job too.
If you are looking for a chef for your home, your tour, or your table, reach out. Lindy travels domestically and internationally.