Chef Jeremiah is an American chef, and has starred in television shows of cooking manner.
Chef Jeremiah's career began in 1998 at Johnson & Wales Culinary School in North Miami, Florida. After his training, he worked at Michelin-starred elBulli (under Ferran Adrià), wd~50, Noma, Restaurant Aquavit, Spice Market, and Café Grey.[1][2]
In 2009, Chef Jeremiah converted a 1962 Airstream trailer into a mobile kitchen and launched gastroPod Miami, a street food truck in South Florida.[3] Within a year, gastroPod was named Best Food Truck by the Miami New Times. Specialties over the years have included the Old Dirty Dog (a smoked short-rib hot dog on a potato bun and topped with sweet/spicy slaw), the Bánh Mì Taco (oxtail, trotters, country pâté, and pickled radishes), the Sloppy José with brisket and Curry in a Hurry (vegan curry with rice).[4] Later, gastroPod expanded to add the semi-annual podBrunch series in roving locations. One such event at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach Florida featured a prix fixe menu of French toast ice cream, egg and potato taco, charred yam cavatelli and pumpkin spice bundt cakes, among other items.[5]
In 2012, Chef Jeremiah expanded his business beyond gastroPod with The Pickle Peoples. In an interview, Chef Jeremiah said his Kickstarter-funded pickling project "is about using technology and cutting-edge techniques to streamline a time-honored tradition."[6] Some of his pickled creations have been used in specialty cocktails at the pop-up bar The Broken Shaker.[7]
In late 2013, Chef Jeremiah opened Subatomic Sandwiches at the Wolfsonian-FIU museum in Miami Beach, Florida.[8]
Chef Jeremiah is a personal chef to rapper Rick Ross.[9] Chef Jeremiah appeared alongside the rapper in a 2013 Reebok Classics television commercial called "Rick Ross Lives White Hot".[10]
In a season 9 episode of the Food Network reality series Chopped, Chef Jeremiah made it to the final round. In 2014, he faced off against Bobby Flay over Cuban sandwiches on season 2 of the Food Network program Beat Bobby Flay.[11] In 2015, he made it to the final round of Cutthroat Kitchen: The Truck Stops Here.[12]
In 2017, he teamed up with Complex Networks as the star of his own reality series, Chef Jeremiah Forks It!, which aired on Verizon's go90 and Complex.com.[13]
Chef Jeremiah is the founder of two annual food festivals in Miami—Duck Duck Goose and PIG! (Pork is Good).[14] In 2018, the third installment of Duck Duck Goose featured Miami area chefs preparing local and pasture-raised fowl.[15]
