Biography
Chef Plum : Born in Richmond, Virginia, Chef Plum is a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America with over 25 years of culinary experience. Chef Plum has worked all over the east coast in everything from five star hotels to great small neighborhood restaurants. Since 2006 Chef Plum has been focused on bringing great, whole, farm foods to families, small parties, celebrities and executives. Chef Plum has been featured on Food Network, ABC's The Taste, Ehow.com, Jamie Oliver's Foodtube, Hallmark, The New York Times, national commercials and many media outlets. A multiple time winner on Food Network making over 10 appearances with wins on Chopped open your basket, Guy's Grocery Games, and America's best cook Regional Championship.
Chef Plum has a passion for simple, easy, farm foods, believing great food doesn't need gimmicks. Chef Plum's latest brainchild, the award winning Dinner Underground has brought a series of pop-up restaurants to the Northeast. Chef Plum is the first chef to ever host a pop up restaurant inside the walls of mall kitchen giant Williams-Sonoma.
Chef Plums brand new series on OnlyGoodTV, "Random Acts of Cooking" is now available on OnlyGoodTV where he travels the country using food to help people. The first episode in the series shows Chef Plum organizing and executing a dinner for 700 US Navy Sailors. The second episode Chef helps some inner city teens show love to their mentors.
He is also the host and executive producer of the incredibly popular series " Restaurant Road Trip" that was submitted for a New England Emmy.
Chef Plum is the host and producer of the acclaimed video series with Edible Magazine "On the Road". The series focuses on where food comes from in an informative and comedic way and culminates with a recipe to end each episode. The show is available now on Amazon Prime!
Chef Plum's podcast " Plumluvfoods Live ", is a popular show among those in the culinary field and is a top 200 in the food category on Itunes with over 220 episodes. The show covers all angles of the business and has had great guests such as Guy Fieri, Troy Johnson from Food Network, Beau Macmillan, Emmy award winner Paul Mercurio and many more! The show is live every week on Spreaker Radio and podcast-ed to Stitcher, Spotify, Iheart, Itunes and everywhere podcasts are found. Chef Plum is a regular on Ct Style on WTNH, "BetterCT" on WFSB, FoxCT, Food Network, Star 99.9 and the nationally syndicated shows, "Better" and "Arise 360".
The newest series Elite Chef is a branded content series for the Eli's Restaurant group that Plum hosted and executive produced was a massive success that provided a platform for 7 chefs as well as getting the word out about Eli's Restaurant Group. The series was a massive success that aired on Facebook and viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.
Chef Plum has served on the judging panel for many prestigious events including, Ny Hot Sauce Expo, Bacon and Beer Classic, The World Food Championship, and Ny Best Wing Festival . As well as a headline chef at many food festivals including the Sun Wine and Food festival at Mohegan Sun and Cuisines of the Sun at La Estancia.
