

The first one portrays Jeff as a budding crack dealer, figuring out both the financial and culinary ends of the trade: On the flight home, I planned to just flip through his book but I became thoroughly engrossed and ended up reading the whole thing. That’s the story he tells in his book, Cooked, which Will Smith’s production company has purchased in the hopes of filming his story.Īs luck would have it, I ran into Chef Jeff a few days later when we were both giving lectures at a conference. Now, after several years in prison and many, many restaurant jobs, he is the executive chef at the Cafe Bellagio in Vegas. and San Diego, became a big-time crack dealer, and was sentenced to a long term in prison, where he learned to cook and became passionate about food. (We have the same publisher.) Jeff grew up in L.A.

That’s when our publicist mentioned him and his new book. Have you ever heard of Chef Jeff Henderson?
