트레이시 말레첵-에제키엘은 휴스턴에서 태어나고 자랐습니다. 휴스턴 대학교의 힐튼 호텔 및 레스토랑 경영 대학을 졸업한 후, 그녀는 스페인으로 이사했고, 그곳에서 재료 중심 요리에 반했습니다. 미국으로 돌아온 후, 그녀는 차에 짐을 싣고 시카고로 운전하여 2년 동안 Lula Café에서 요리한 후 뉴욕 하이드 파크에 있는 Culinary Institute of America로 향했습니다.

정식 요리 교육을 받은 트레이시는 Cru, Del Posto, Blue Hill New York 등 뉴욕시 전역의 수상 경력에 빛나는 레스토랑에서 요리한 후, James Beard Outstanding Chef 수상자 Mike Anthony의 Danny Meyer's Gramercy Tavern에서 수셰프가 되었습니다. 2015년, 그녀는 Whitney의 Untitled에서 오프닝 팀에 합류했습니다. 그곳에서 그녀는 남편이자 사업 파트너인 Arjav를 만났습니다.

In July 2021, Tracy and Arjav opened Birdie’s, a small restaurant and wine bar in East Austin with a fine dining-caliber menu and counter-service format, marking the couple’s first solo venture and Tracy’s first crack at running her own kitchen. In homage to Tracy’s longstanding love of fresh ingredients, its menu consists of simple, seasonally inspired food that takes heavy cues from French and Italian cooking. Birdie’s represents their shared vision for a reimagined restaurant model that places sustainability and equity at its core. Its team-centric business model, which includes a 3.5% health and wellness fee on all checks and generous paid time off, has established it as a leader in Austin. In 2023, Birdie’s was named Food & Wine’s Restaurant of the Year; Tracy was later nominated as a finalist by the James Beard Foundation Awards for “Best Chef: Texas” (2024). Before that, in 2022, Birdie’s was named one of Bon Appétit’s and Esquire’s “Best New Restaurants in America,” and it was on the New York Times’ “Restaurant List” 2021. In 2025, Tracy was named to Cherry Bombe’s inaugural Power List, an accolade highlighting women making the culinary world a more interesting, inspiring, and innovative place, and was also recognized on the TIME100 Next list. Tracy is honored to be a member of World Central Kitchen’s Chef Corps and serves on the Texas board of Wholesome Wave, a nonprofit dedicated to ending food insecurity and increasing access to nutrition. When outside the kitchen, enjoys spending time with Arjav, their baby boy, and their dogs, Wally and Lola.