Chef & The FoodieFood With Purpose

Poetential Infinite Earnest—known to all as Chef Poe—is a 31-plus-year veteran culinarian, Master Manager, and Culinary Arts Director whose career spans high-volume kitchens, boutique hotels, private executive estates, and educational academies from Chicago, Las Vegas, and Palm Springs to San Diego, Martha's Vineyard, and beyond. Along the way, he has cooked for celebrities, politicians, and high-net-worth clients.

A James Beard Foundation semi-finalist who helped propel Courtright's American Dining to its four-star rating, Chef Poe is celebrated for his "flavor bombing" methodology, clean plating aesthetics, and "high-vibration flavor physics." He spearheaded the Green Flash Gastro Food Truck to become the #1 ranked food truck in California, and as a ServSafe Proctor and Culinary Instructor he has designed custom curricula, mentored troubled youth, and brought vocational programs to the #13 ranking out of over 100 Job Corps centers nationwide.

As Co-Founder and Director of Culinary Architecture of Chef & The Foodie—alongside his wife and business partner, Dr. Alvie R. Earnest, NMD—Chef Poe approaches food with intentionality, reduced-waste principles, sustainability, and deep respect for fresh, locally sourced ingredients. His repertoire spans American, Italian, French, Creole, Soul, Fusion, Asian, Jamaican, Middle Eastern, Filipino, African, Mexican, Tex-Mex, and Afro-Mex cuisines. Currently developing his debut cookbook, authoring culinary curricula, and producing pop-ups and online concepts, Chef Poe remains a perpetual student of the craft—delivering rebellious, bold, and liberated gastronomy.

Dr. Alvie Earnest has worked in holistic health professionally for over 20 years and is educated as a Naturopathic MD. A 25-year educator and vegan activist, her goal is to make being vegan easier and more tangible by sharing a lifestyle with less harm to animals, the environment, and ourselves—while still finding joy in food and life.

Her path into holistic health began with a massage program that opened her mind to how fascinating the human body is and how it can be cared for through the medicine of plants, eating plants, and traditional practices. From Oriental Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda to the traditionally plant-dominant diets of African, Afro-Caribbean, and Latino cultures, Alvie saw that plant-centered eating is powerful, nourishing medicine.

Her mission became personal: she ended more than a decade of pain from Lupus and Fibromyalgia by eating 100% plant-based, and she supports her husband Chef Poe in managing his heart health the same way. She has taught in colleges and created educational workshops and community cooking classes for more than two decades, growing food and sharing sustainable practices. Her greatest desire is for all people to express the wealth of a better life through daily habits, community connection, and resources that benefit all people, the animals, and the planet we share.