Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jeff Henderson.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Henderson, Jeff
• Brock, Paul, 1932-
• Hickey, Matthew
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 20 min., 51 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Chef Jeffery Henderson was born in Watts, Los Angeles in 1965. In the early 1980s, his family moved to San Diego where he began selling cocaine. In 1988, one of his couriers was arrested with drugs, and paperwork led police to Henderson who received ten years in prison. Henderson began turning his life around by reading and working in prison kitchens. In 1992, he was transferred to Nellis Air Force Base. He was accepted into Culinary Training School for inmates at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. In 1997, Henderson was freed from prison. He moved to Las Vegas and after numerous rejections was hired by Caesars Palace restaurant. Henderson later became executive chef at Caf Bellagio. In 2001, he was honored by the American Food and Wine Tasting Federation. In 2007, he published his memoir, "Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras.".

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Jeff Henderson
• Jeff Henderson

Subject

• Henderson, Jeff > Interviews
• Henderson, Jeff
• African Americans > Interviews
• Cooks > United States > Interviews
• Drug dealers > United States > Interviews
• Ex-convicts > United States > Interviews
• African Americans
• Cooks
• Drug dealers
• Ex-convicts
• United States
• Chef Nonprofit Chief Executive

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

OCLC

997168346

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jeff Henderson.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Playing Time

022051

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Performer

Paul Brock, interviewer.

Credits

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Event

Recorded Las Vegas, Nevada 2007 April 7.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Chef Nonprofit Chief Executive.

Added Author

Henderson, Jeff, interviewee.

Brock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.

Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.