Working Capital: What’s it like to cook for royalty? This Maryland chef tells all

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captionElementsArray captionElements captionElementsArray forEach el if el size el style width size width px el style display block What s it like to cook for royalty This Md chef knows In the kitchen of a high-rise apartment building in Chevy Chase Maryland Jeremy Sharpe the culinary director for Five Star Premiere Residences cooks for dozens of seniors every day But once upon a time his job was to cook for royalty You are catering to a standard that exceeds anything you re used to especially when you come up in Silver Spring disclosed Sharpe recounting the two years he spent cooking for members of the Saudi royal family when he was in his s He got the job when a friend of his lured him away from a restaurant in Georgetown to a private catering company that specialized in cooking on private jets That s where we met the prince summed up Sharpe The prince came in and he informed us we were the best catering company in the world Chef called me one day he s like Look I got a job You want a job Next day I was on a flight to LA with them and I never turned back From Los Angeles he would go on to journey to Riyadh Japan and France He visited nearly every continent except for chosen reason Sharpe stated never made it to South America He particularly loved Kuala Lumpur the capital of Malaysia It was a fully different world he explained I had a little five by five kitchen and as soon as the wheels went up I was cooking When you re at altitude it takes water longer to boil and food in general needed longer time to bake He did all the shopping ahead of time and as you would imagine cost was never a consideration So they say Hey we ve got people We re flying to Morocco the next day Wheels up at o clock Put a menu together he recounted Then you kind of go off the demands of the people you re with They ll give you a profile of who you re cooking for So it kept me on my toes and you only had a limited hours to turn it around he added If somebody s favorite dish was spaghetti Bolognese I would really get to go to one of the palaces and worked with the chef in there and he would show me how to make that dish for the prince Sharpe declared And if I didn t make it correctly I was in trouble But I spent the whole day learning how to make spaghetti Bolognese his way Working Capital stories How a woman s cheesy hobby became an Alexandria neighborhood institution Her designs help enhance the experience of Reagan National travelers This DC hotel s Lobby Ambassador elevates the guest experience He never ran anything by special taste testers first or anything like that And over time the number of complaints he got about a dish not being prepared the right way would decline But the excitement and the spontaneity did not You never knew where you were going Sharpe declared That days you re on call you re ready to go at a moment s notice He flew with kings queens presidents he mentioned he even flew with Nelson Mandela It was two incredible years of jet setting in his s that limited could imagine You re talking life-altering Sharpe noted Just a shock beliefs shock as well Because I m a local kid I m from the area so it was really great to see the world to get paid to see the world was amazing The royal family was a cakewalk Chef Jeremy Sharpe cooks for seniors at an assisted living facility in Chevy Chase WTOP John Domen The present day he oversees meals for the older adults who live in the building The kitchen is much bigger and the recipes naturally have to be a little different You re doing a lot more low sodium You re doing things that are a little healthier less sugars he revealed You re catering to a population that has that has specific requirements and you have to be able to meet those requirements because their vitality and well-being is crucial And how do the expectations of those seniors compare to the royal family Compared to the royal family The royal family was a cakewalk he disclosed with a smile and eventually a laugh The standards in here are a lot different They know what they want they say what s on their mind and they don t mince words They ll tell you if they don t like something He lasted two years with the royals living a life that can t be sustained when you have a wife and kids He s spent the last years in Chevy Chase I was looking for a place to land and seniors older adults it was inevitably something in the back of my mind that I had a passion for he revealed So when this opportunity opened up I jumped all over it Source