PY Steakhouse Chef de Cuisine Roderick LeDesma Wins Knife Fight 2018 > After three years at the helm of the kitchen there, he joined the team at Casino Del Sol as Chef de Cuisine of PY Steakhouse and was recently promoted to Executive Sous Chef. Chef Roderick now assists in overseeing all 16 Food and Beverage outlets casino wide. After his experience there, he returned to Tucson, taking over as Chef de Cuisine back at the Primo, JW Marriott. Quickly moving up the ranks, he was asked by James Beard award-winning Chef Melissa Kelly, to join the team at Primo in Rockland, Maine. He left to attend the Art institute of Tucson, during which time he started working at Primo at the JW Marriott Starr Pass. He attended the University of Arizona, thinking going to college was what he was “supposed to do”, but never felt like it was right for him. Growing up on old cooking shows and cookbooks, he found himself constantly in the kitchen.
However, his love for cooking developed early on when his mother taught him to cook at a young age. Chef Le Desma started working in restaurants at age 16.
