The Chef Rock Xperiment

What up everybody!

Welcome to The Chef Rock Xperiment, Season 3!

A little about myself:

• My name is Rahman Harper and I’m from Alexandria Virginia
• I’ve been in food for over 20 years
• Restaurants have been great for me-I’ve even owned a couple
• Service and the power of community are important to me and what I do.
• • The March of Dimes, DC Central Kitchen, Central Union Mission
• You may know that I competed on season 3 of Fox's hit reality show Hell's Kitchen with Chef Gordon Ramsay and I won
• Since HK, I’ve done a few cool things.
• • Diplomatic Culinary Partnership
  • James Beard Foundation’s Chef Boot Camp for Policy and Change
  • A bunch of TV
  • Gumbo Jubilee and Whole Cow Barbecue

What will the podcast be about…

You can expect interviews with some of today’s brightest and most successful minds in food and culture. I want to speak with people that are making a dent in the zeitgest and moving culture forward.

You may see some shows where I’m purely offering my insight into a certain subject like how to cost out food and plan a menu. I know or thing or two about that.

One of my passions is to provide chefs with the tools outside of the food realm to achieve success. So, expect to hear interviews about building those mental muscles and strengthening the rarely talked about skills in chef and restaurant culture. In my interview with Gideon Culman, host of Where Genius Grow Podcast, we get some great insight into these skills. 

Sheree Williams, CEO and Editor in Chief of Cuisine Noir Magazine, now celebrating its 10th year speaks about how she got started in media and what her mission for the groundbreaking publication is for 2019, and beyond. Dr. Howard Conyers the rocket scientist and pitmaster talks about his hit show Nourish on PBS and we talk about Gumbo Jubilee the event in New Orleans where many of us had the privilege to meet the phenomenal Leah Chase and also see Dr. Conyers barbecue a whole cow. Chef Jerome Grant of The National Museum of African American History and Culture comes on to talk a little fashion and his success one of the founders of black restaurant week in DC, Dr. Erin Tucker  and the incomparable Therese Nelson the chef, writer and steward of Black Culinary History plus many more stop by The Chef Rock Xperiment to chop it up with me.

We will also talk about the number one subject people want to know about: MONEY! If you’re like me, you want to know more and hopefully my guests will help all of us learn more than we did before.

When will the show launch and how often…

The new season launches March 3rd at 11:01 PM EST and you can expect an episode every Monday from there on out. We may have some bonuses for you, but at minimum, you’ll get some powerful content each and every Monday right here on the 3rd Season of The Chef Rock Xperiment.

If you haven't already, please subscribe, rate and review the show. Your feedback is everything to me! You can also drop us an email at TCRX@rocksolidfood.com 

Holla at you soon, peace!