The Creole Chef

Posted June 11, 2019 by qotsm in Fashion & Style

I began experimenting at a very young age as most human children do. Except my discovery phase included tools and fire. At the young and tender age of four years old, I decided to go into the kitchen, pull out accommodating instruments to prepare a breakfast for my papa. I organized my tools, gathered salt, pepper, butter and eggs and milk, pulled up a chair to a gas stove and fired it up! What happened next, would put me in a special certain group of people in later years.

After high school, I knew i needed skills to work and survive living a city like NYC so I studied Mixology (bartender school) and worked in restaurants but wasn’t’ really serious about it at the time. My main focus was theater and dance. Somehow over the years, i found myself falling back to what came easy
and also coupled as therapy – cooking.

While making a place for myself in the theater working as an actor and choreographer a rediscovery of childhood and culture resurfaced and that of all things Creole! After living in NYC, my second home, I had moved back to southern territory where I divided my time between Houston and New Orleans and also stumbled upon a few clothing optional beaches and resorts while firing up the grill. Makes one wonder where the title “DaNaked Creole Chef” comes from. By this time i had garnered so much business that I had to get business cards made. Every other week, I was cranking out gumbo, etoufee, jambalaya, beignets, shrimp Creole and the list was increasing. The next step for me was culinary school to make it official and of course to legitimize my own business. So now we provide catering, personal and private chef service, classes, kitchen organizing and construct customized aprons and accessories.