in a high-tech building in los angeles, the brilliant young chef and mastermind behind vespertine offers a radical and esoteric dining ritual, transforming cuisine into an unprecedented immersive artwork interview and photography by OLIVIER ZAHM shot at VESPERTINE, LOS ANGELES OLIVIER ZAHM — What you do is a very unique form of cooking. Generally, we see cuisine connected with tradition. JORDAN KAHN — It’s all rooted somewhere… OLIVIER ZAHM — Exactly! We like new associations, but coming from a base… But you don’t start from any tradition. JORDAN KAHN — No. It’s hard to talk about the cooking without talking about the project as a whole and the process of how it came to be. It grew and was alive and manifested itself in various ways, which is why we integrated different people, and then it shifted. It’s very much a living organism. OLIVIER ZAHM — Is pure innovation in…