The Chef Jeff Project

I was looking something to watch on TV the other day when I came across a show on the Food Network called The Chef Jeff Project. The premise of the show was quite interesting. Jeff Henderson, now a Chef with his own catering company, takes six at-risk young adults and teaches them the trade of cooking while trying to keep them off the streets and on the straight and narrow. Jeff himself was incarcerated when he was 24 on a drug charge and spent several years in the pen. While incarcerated, he learned to cook and developed a passion for thr culinary arts, and once released, he worked his way up and became the Executive Chef at Las Vegas's premiere hotel, the Bellagio.

The episode I watched was so touching, because Jeff took his six students to his home in Las Vegas where he was having a birthday party for his grandmother with his family and he showed so much emotion for his family and the students were all choked up. It's good to see that not every foray that involves  Blacks in reality television is not coonery. Please check out the show yourself. Sundays at 10pm EST. For more info on The Chef Jeff project, click HERE.

BTW, the students who complete his project will win a full scholarship to the Culinary Arts Institute. NICE!