Who knew that a kid sneaking into the kitchen to make pancakes at the age of nine while his mother was sleeping would explode into the culinary scene as, America’s next celebrity chef. Chef Jerome has moved on from his first stack of pancakes to gourmet cuisine.
Chef Rome has become a Grade-A celebrity Chef that athletes and entertainers call upon when they need someone to come into the kitchen and make it happen. Having personally cooked for some of America’s top athletes, Entertainers and Bishops from Shaquille O’Neal (Miami Heat), Brevin Knight (Los Angeles Clippers), Grammy nominated artist Byron Cage, Bishop Eddie Long (congregation of 25,000), Mike Bobby (Sacramento Kings), Nancy Kerrigan (Olympic Skater) to Priscilla Presley and even Collin Powell and the King of Sweden have taken pleasure in Chef Rome explosive flavorful gourmet cuisine. Chef Rome started his compensated career out at Gardener’s BBQ in his Rocky Mount North Carolina neighborhood during his teenage years. After high school, Chef Rome joined the US Army to serve his country serving over 3600 meals per day. After dedicating nearly seven years of service, Jerome decided to take his chances with a single culinary opening at Orlando’s Walt Disney World Resort. Jerome’s odds were 400 to 1, but that didn’t stop him. His passion and I can do it attitude landed him the job beating out 399 other applicants. The beginning of the journey where Jerome came to be known as Chef Rome. In 1988, Chef Rome took his culinary journey into the area of Personal Chef, landing a NBA player on his first leap and helping him drop the needed 30 pounds over the summer to ensure a spot on the roster. Chef Rome extraordinary skills in the kitchen, his knowledge of food and his dynamic personality lead him to be known as the Chef’s Chef and many professional athlete and entertainers made him the go to guy for someone you can trust in your kitchen. In 2000, Chef Rome started his culinary placement service and to date have assisted and placed over 75 top chefs in various athlete and entertainer homes. To date, if it was not a conflict of privacy, Chef Rome client contact and culinary placement service list would read like a who’s who culinary book.In 2001, Chef Rome was commissioned by an NBA player to come on board and consult with the opening of his restaurant. Chef Rome single handily planned the restaurant menu, layout of the restaurant floor plan, and systematize the operations, management and flow of the kitchen. In 2004, Chef Rome did a soft launch of his first book and self published a limited run. The response was overwhelmingly positive and the books were sold within a very short amount of time. In 2005, Chef Rome created his live cooking show, which he launched with a different name, but soon titled it, The Perfect Ingredient. In front of a live audience Chef Rome, the flavor master demonstrates recipes from grandma’s favorite to gourmet cuisine . . . he brings food to life with bold-balanced flavors and vivid presentations right in front of your eyes, giving you flavors you can’t seem to ever get out of your mind. Chef Rome enters and exits the stage to theme music with a heavy bass beat. He wears custom-made chef gear, from his own line Rome Couture Chef Gear, with his signature script R on the chest. He wows the crowd with his lightning-fast chopping knife and mix in of the right amount of humor. The Perfect Ingredient boast a rhythmic vibe that presents Chef Rome as, some writers have wrote, the hip-hop equivalent of Emeril Lagasse. In 2007, Chef Rome with his partners created a Couture Chef Line, Rome Couture Chef Gear, while still in development plans the launch of a Chef Shoe, Cookware and Knives have been set in place. Chef Rome also has T-shirts that is available with his signature caricature on it. The future 2008, Chef Rome is on a steady path and has plans to be in a strong position to have his very own Television show in place. Chef Rome currently resides in Los Angeles, California For more information on Chef Jerome Brown please email [email protected]Click here to see Chef Rome at Shaq's house.
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