Chef Plum
Co-Host, SeasonedBorn in Richmond, Virginia, Chef Plum is a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America with over 25 years of culinary experience. Chef Plum has worked all over the east coast in everything from five star hotels to great small neighborhood restaurants. Since 2006 Chef Plum has been focused on bringing great, whole, farm foods to families, small parties, celebrities and executives. Chef Plum has been featured on Food Network, ABC's The Taste, Ehow.com, Jamie Oliver’s Foodtube, Hallmark, The New York Times, national commercials and many media outlets. He’s a multiple time winner on Food Network, making over 10 appearances with wins on Chopped, open your basket, Guy’s Grocery Games, and America's best cook Regional Championship.
Chef Plum has a passion for simple, easy, farm foods, believing great food doesn’t need gimmicks. Chef Plum's latest brainchild, the award winning Dinner Underground has brought a series of pop-up restaurants to the Northeast. Chef Plum is the first chef to ever host a pop up restaurant inside the walls of mall kitchen giant Williams-Sonoma. Chef Plums series on OnlyGoodTV, “Random Acts of Cooking” is now available on OnlyGoodTV where he travels the country using food to help people. He is also the host and executive producer of the incredibly popular series “Restaurant Road Trip.”
Chef Plum is the host and producer of the acclaimed video series with Edible Magazine “On the Road”. The series focuses on where food comes from in an informative and comedic way and culminates with a recipe to end each episode.
Along with being co-host of Seasoned on Connecticut Public Radio, Chef Plum's podcast “Plumluvfoods Live”, is a popular show among those in the culinary field and is a top 200 in the food category on iTunes with over 220 episodes. The show covers all angles of the business and has featured Guy Fieri, Troy Johnson from Food Network, Beau Macmillan, Emmy award winner Paul Mercurio and many more! Chef Plum is a regular on Ct Style on WTNH, “BetterCT” on WFSB, FoxCT, Food Network, Star 99.9 and the nationally syndicated shows, “Better” and “Arise 360”.
The newest series Chef Plum is working on, called Elite Chef, is a branded content series for the Eli’s Restaurant group hosted and Executive Produced by Plum.
Chef Plum has served on the judging panel for many prestigious events including, New York Hot Sauce Expo, Bacon and
Beer Classic, The World Food Championship, and New York Best Wing Festival . As well as a headline chef at many food
festivals including the Sun Wine and Food festival at Mohegan Sun and Cuisines of the Sun at La Estancia.
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So many delicious things start with cooking an onion. This week on Seasoned, we celebrate the most essential ingredient in the kitchen with guests Kate Winslow, Sefra Alexandra (aka The Seed Huntress) and Ramin Ganeshram. -
Stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, green beans! Chef Plum and Marysol Castro talk with chefs about the real stars of Thanksgiving dinner. Plus, Bon Appétit’s test kitchen director weighs in and we talk with local cranberry farmer Keith Bishop.
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Lidia Bastianich, beloved PBS chef and cookbook author, joins Seasoned to talk about 'Lidia's a Pot, a Pan, and a Bowl: Simple Recipes for Perfect Meals.' Plus, Lidia and the Seasoned team answer your questions about cooking Thanksgiving dinner.
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We’re kicking off the holidays with the Festival of Lights! This hour on Seasoned, Hanukkah classics. A sommelier explains kosher wine and we visit The Crown Market in West Hartford.
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Exploring Indigenous food with members of the Mashantucket Pequot, Mohegan and Navajo tribal nationsThis week on Seasoned, an exploration of Indigenous food and cooking with Nakai Clearwater Northup, Rachel Sayet, and Chef Freddie Bitsoie.
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Dietitian Maggie Michalczyk explains the nutritional benefits of pumpkin, and a food scientist demystifies pumpkin spice. Plus, local baristas explain the popularity of pumpkin spice lattes, and we talk to a local pumpkin farmer.
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This week on Seasoned, we visit Hogan’s Cider Mill in Burlington, CT, where the owners make cider the way they did 100 years ago. Plus, we talk to the authors of 'American Cider.'
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This hour on Seasoned, Carla Lalli Music shares recipes and stories from her cookbook, 'That Sounds So Good: 100 Real-Life Recipes For Every Day Of The Week'.
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Vallery Lomas, winner of The Great American Baking Show, speaks with Seasoned hosts about her first cookbook, 'Life Is What You Bake It'.
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Who doesn’t love a good ol’ fashioned diner? Seasoned guests include Mike Urban, Brian O’Rourke of O’Rourke’s Diner, and poet Brett Maddux.
