From Prison Kitchen to Celebrity Chef
Chef Jeff is a culinary pioneer working in a top restaurant, but he learned to cook during a ten year prison sentence.
Jeff Henderson, also known as Chef Jeff, is something of a culinary pioneer. He was the first African American Chef de Cuisine at the swanky Las Vegas restaurant Caesar's Palace, he's starred in a cookery TV show and he's a best selling author. But unlike his fellow chefs, Jeff learnt to cook in a prison kitchen, when he was serving a sentence for drug dealing.
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Image: Chef Jeff
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