Welcome to Dinner’s Late, where every lunch is like dinner and every dinner is like Thanksgiving!
Hello! I’m Jake, the big belly behind Dinner’s Late. I am a home chef that hopes to inspire people to try new flavors and combinations with recipes that are great for entertaining. I use a range of self taught and thoroughly researched techniques to keep you excited about what you’re feeding yourself, friends, and family.
Three Things You Should Know About Me:
- I love to learn: I’m always researching and trying new things in the kitchen and on the grill. Even with Dinner’s Late, I’m learning website design and social media on the fly.
- I’m very competitive and have won awards for BBQ, belly flops, and throwing things… just to name a few. You need to try my Smoked Chicken Wings!
- Once a month, while listening to the Grateful Dead, I make an epic breakfast spread anchored by blueberry pancakes. I call it Jerry Berry Pancake Day and its a holiday that needs to spread!
The Backstory
Food is a big part of all of your lives. I came to appreciate its role in my life learning to make pies with one grandmother and experiencing food’s power to foster community through my other grandmother.
While I have always enjoyed cooking, I didn’t dive deep into the x’s and o’s of food until I exaggerated my abilities as a culinary wiz to land a job on a commercial salmon fishing boat in Alaska. From there it was sink or swim (literally), learning from books and experimenting, all without internet access.
When I got back to Upstate New York, I began to recognize that not only did all the men in my family cook, it was damn near competitive. I continued to hone my skills in the kitchen to keep up and contribute. In my early 20’s I took over hosting Thanksgiving and in my 30’s I’ve joined an award winning BBQ team with my Uncle and Cousin.
I love to bring people together with food. A skill set that started as a slice of ham on a chicken patty has grown… a lot. I’m looking forward to sharing what I’ve learned and what I’m discovering. I’ll be posting crafted and curated recipes while on the quest to discover the “perfect bite”. Feel free to follow along by subscribing and following @dinners.late on Instagram.
Dessert First,
Jake