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From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras
William Morrow
February 2007
On Sale: February 20, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 0061153907
EAN: 9780061153907
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Jeff Henderson
was just another inner-city black kid born into a world of
poverty and
limited options, where crime seemed to provide the only way
to get out.
Raised mostly by his single mother, who struggled just to
keep food on
the table, Jeff dreamed big. He had to get out and he soon
did by
turning to what so many in his community did: dealing drugs.
But Jeff
was no ordinary drug dealer; by twenty-one, he was one of
the top
cocaine dealers in San Diego, making up to $35,000 a week.
Two years
later he was indicted on federal drug trafficking charges
and sentenced
to almost twenty years in prison. Before he knew what had
hit him, he
was looking at spending most of his life behind bars. The
street life
had been the only one he'd ever known and even incarcerated
he was too
hardheaded to realize that no good would come of it.
That is,
until he was assigned to one of the least desirable prison jobs:
washing dishes. That job helped turn his whole life around.
It gave him
access to the prison kitchen and he became fascinated
watching his
fellow prisoners cook for the thousands of other inmates and
prison
officials. Henderson learned to cook in prison. Not cocaine,
but food.
And his dream was born: Once outside, he would become a
chef. It was a tough, seemingly impossible journey for an ex-con.
Few chefs
would give him the opportunity to cook in their restaurants.
And once
hired, he endured racism and sabotage in the kitchen. But
Henderson
refused to accept rejection. Driven by a dream and an
unshakable will
to succeed, Chef Jeff worked hard to overcome unimaginable
adversity
and eventually reached the top of his profession, becoming
executive
chef at Café Bellagio in Las Vegas. Alive with the
energy of
the streets, the sober reality of prison, and the visceral
thrill of
being inside the fast-paced kitchens of great restaurants,
Cooked
is an intense, intimate tale of crime, punishment, and
redemption—a
deeply poignant story of how the worst wrong can lead to the
most
extraordinary right.
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