He landed on dish-washing duty after a stint in “the hole,” but soon found that inmates eat better in the kitchen, especially by keeping a secret pot on the back burner or stuffing food for later in their tighty-whitey underwear. “Chef Jeff” made a perfect guide for that journey, having grown up selling crack in Los Angeles and San Diego, making $35,000 a week as a drug dealer, coming to prison with scars from stab wounds.
“Chef Jeff” Henderson shows inmate Bernard Massenburg how to dice onions and cilantro using a folded tuna can lid as a knife, a trick he learned while in prison himself.
