I’m a Personal Chef for Celebrities and Make $2K Pizzas (Unique)

• Brooke Baevsky, extensively often known as Chef Bae, is a private-celebrity chef for VIP shoppers comparable to Adam Sandler, Meghan Markle and Mindy Kaling, amongst different outstanding names throughout Hollywood and the world.
• She tells PEOPLE solely about her untraditional rise to culinary success, from experimenting with health-focused recipes for her household earlier than school to distinctive food-related alternatives after commencement.
• Baevsky, who doubles as a content material creator, takes viewers inside her movie star shoppers’ houses whereas documenting her meal preps and cooking processes in movies shared on social media.

Sooner or later you are concocting do-it-yourself almond milk to your brother, and the following you are whipping up gluten-free, dairy-free and refined sugar-free banana bread for Meghan Markle. In brief, that is precisely what Brooke Baevsky did as a then business-minded pupil turned private-celebrity chef.

Whereas a typical day may include crafting a five-step drink routine that features 19 superfoods and 11 dietary supplements for Adam Sandler’s household or making a $2K pizza with caviar and natural Manuka honey shipped from New Zealand, she did not all the time have an “emergency truffle” man on velocity dial.

In the meantime, you do not even should be a V.I.P. shopper of Baevsky’s to get a style of her culinary masterpieces as a result of she additionally caters to her near-million followers throughout Instagram and TikTok with mouthwatering content material shot from inside the celebs’ houses. Famously, she’s often known as “Chef Bae.”

Baevsky’s recipe for achievement, nevertheless, is not what you’d suppose.

“How I acquired into cooking undoubtedly wasn’t conventional,” she tells PEOPLE in an unique interview about her culinary rise to turning into a sought-after movie star chef.

On the core of her elaborate menus are health-conscious recipes customized to every of her shoppers’ dietary wants, a culinary area of interest — or fairly, “inventive outlet” — she’s perfected since practising on her household whereas rising up in her native Massachusetts, in a city simply exterior of Springfield.

“My household has 9 dietary wants and restrictions among the many 5 of us, which is loopy,” Baevsky tells PEOPLE solely. “Gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, peanut-free, tree-nut-free, legume, every thing.”

It is onerous to think about a world when nut, seed, legume, grain and even vegetable milks weren’t widespread — however the dairy-free milk options solely grew to become hot-selling gadgets lately, together with different health-conscious choices interesting to these with lactose intolerance, vegan diets, amongst others.

“I used to be within the late ’90s making almond milk and making an attempt to determine this bizarre retailer that offered dietary yeast to make gluten-free, dairy-free mac and cheese,” she recollects of the early days. “My mother and father undoubtedly tried some disgusting issues… however with that got here actually, actually good recipes.”

Proudly, Baevsky touts that her then-experimental mac and cheese is identical, go-to recipe she makes use of for her movie star shoppers’ youngsters right this moment! “Meals wasn’t what it’s now,” she says of the health-conscious, diet-sensitive foodscape that she helped pioneer since her school days.

Her research as a enterprise, product improvement and meals science pupil at Syracuse College led her to a content-creation stint with BuzzFeed. Put up-grad alternatives allowed her a hand within the improvement of “a number of the healthiest meals merchandise for the biggest corporations on the earth.”

Finally, Baevsky led a workforce of her personal, influencing her to enroll in a health-supportive culinary arts program with an emphasis on diet. The training dialed in on consuming for wellness, going so far as “analyzing blood work to heal illnesses and sicknesses” with meals selections.

“I needed to manage every thing from the place the elements come from to the completed product,” she says. “As soon as I graduated this program… I used to be rapidly approached by trainers within the NBA and the NFL,” she continues, citing in-depth analyses of athletes to create customized meal plans for every.

Her top-tier clientele “snowballed” from there, Baevsky says. She had an edge.

Science-backed recipes apart, the tech-savvy prepare dinner had a talented eye on short-form video content material — however whereas it appears unimaginable to scroll with out seeing a 15-second cooking demo from creators on TikTok right this moment, what number of clips do you see filmed alongside Mindy Kaling or Paris Hilton?

“I used to be on this actually attention-grabbing spot that each gave me actually high-end clientele after which I additionally knew the way to do content material and be in entrance of the digicam,” Baevsky explains. “I used to be on this actually attention-grabbing area of interest that exploded.”

With shoppers that vary from royal households everywhere in the world to the largest actors and musicians in Hollywood, bringing a digicam inside could seem invasive for one thing as intimate as private meals prep and time for dinner. However for Baevsky, it is a essential component of her model.

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“Usually with non-public cooks, you’d go in, you’d signal a contract, you’d signal an NDA and you then would go in as a personal chef or whoever this well-known individual could also be,” Baevsky factors out. “I’ve by no means completed that… I constructed up a platform.”

She explains, “Then my movie star shoppers or their youngsters adopted me on TikTok or Instagram and have been like, ‘Are you able to prepare dinner for us? Can we be in your TikTok? Are you able to prepare dinner for my dad?’ And I am like, ‘Who’s your dad?’ And so they’re like, ‘Adam Sandler.’ I am like, ‘All proper. Yeah, I am going to prepare dinner to your dad.'”

Baevsky has her signature staples (like grain-free rooster tenders and her famed carrot cake with cashew cream cheese frosting) — however after years of working along with her core circle of shoppers, she has their go-to recipes all the way down to a science. To be clear, the celebrities are followers of her work.

“Sarah Michelle Gellar loves my rooster burgers,” she says. “Her household fights over them. She says they’re the most effective that she’s ever had. She has them each single week now.”

“LL Cool J loves Italian meals. He loves my lasagna,” she continues.

“I’ve made banana bread for Meghan Markle, which was actually enjoyable. That was gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free when she was in LA for her podcast… and he or she beloved it!” shares the chef.

Accustomed to the Erewhon Hailey Bieber Smoothie that circled the web for being a bank-breaking $20? Effectively, the Sandler household “loves” Baevsky’s tackle the overpriced drink: the “Hailey Baeber Smoothie.”

Plus, everybody within the Sandler household (sans the Sandman) “has a really strict drink routine,” she shares. “It is like scorching water with lemon, celery juice, a detox smoothie, wild blueberry juice and coconut water. I simply posted all the main points of that actually not too long ago in a Reel!”

DJ Diplo, in the meantime, has a menu merchandise named after him: the “Diplorrito,” a breakfast burrito with roasted candy potatoes, grass-fed beef, scrambled eggs, caramelized onions, cheddar and spinach. (she additionally notes that he is a “high-protein, low-carb” type of man.)

“Loads of my shoppers are gluten-free, dairy-free… and I like breaking that stigma that wholesome dietary- pleasant meals is boring,” Baevsky makes identified. “So I nonetheless attempt to preserve it indulgent and attractive and satisfying and wholesome and higher for you, however meals they actually need to eat and is sustainable.”

She emphasizes, “I am not going to place anybody on a sole celery cleanse as a result of then they will be ravenous! So [I’m] all the time prioritizing protein, customized complement routines.”

As for the royals, particularly the Center Japanese royals, Baevsky recollects it being the “greatest” Erewhon journey she’s “ever completed” in her life. “They needed what the American celebrities eat… They have been like, ‘Does Brad Pitt eat this pasta?'” she says with amusing.

A few of her prime movie star shoppers request recipes that you just would not imagine, together with $500 grilled cheeses and $200 peanut butter and jellies. However let’s speak about her $2K pizza appetizer, we could?

Here is the pizza ingredient breakdown: natural figs, adaptogenic mushroom powders, natural almonds, sprouted gluten-free flour blends, magnificence powder, collagen powder, Fulvic Mineral Drops, dietary yeast, microgreens, almond milk ricotta, tomatoes, two of the $30 Erewhon waters, balsamic vinegar, apple cider vinegar, 100% further virgin olive oil, sea salt, natural arugula, natural Manuka honey shipped from New Zealand, caviar and pure gold flakes.

Why, you ask? “Some folks like a $1,000 bottle of wine. This individual needed a $2,000 pizza, to make a press release, to have a enjoyable factor to speak about,” Baevsky causes.

The larger query, although, ought to be about its style. Proper?

“It tasted actually good,” Baevsky reveals of the pizza. “However personally, I might say not value it.”

Whereas these gluttonous requests aren’t on the every day, Baevsky’s grocery payments mirror totals in that dear pizza’s vary and past. On common, she says she spends “not less than” $1,000 on gadgets at go-to grocers like Erewhon and Complete Meals (of which she may make upwards of three journeys a day).

“Final October I spent about $30,000 in a single month, which is loopy, for a shopper that was visiting and renting out a home and had a ton of firm and a giant workforce,” she shares of her grocery receipts. “They will vary from $300 to $5,000.”

One time, Baevsky desperately wanted “emergency truffles” when cooking for a Center Japanese royal household. Thankfully in Los Angeles, there is a service for that!

“There’s this literal man who rides a motorbike and costs a loopy, insane quantity for truffles — however will ship truffles,” she says of Monaco Truffle Co. “Actually an expert biker who goes up and down the hills in Beverly Hills charging you want an arm and a leg for emergency truffles.”

Baevsky remembers paying a “loopy quantity” for these three or 4 last-minute white truffles, approximating their price to be $1,500 once they “ought to have been like $300.” Of her shoppers’ requests, she’s realized: “You by no means say no.”

If there’s one other factor she’s realized (apart from the truth that Diplo “does not like uncooked onions”), it is that arduous work pays off — however there’s nonetheless a lot extra she desires so as to add to her plate.

“I labored very onerous with my profession, so I am very fortunate to have the ability to say that I am actually dwelling my dream, which is superb,” says Baevsky, who additionally makes volunteer work a precedence between movie star bookings.

She “dropped every thing” to assist these affected by the Los Angeles wildfires, raised $260,000 and made 1000’s of meals. She additionally began a number of nonprofit initiatives throughout the nation as a part of after-school cooking packages for internal metropolis youngsters and households.

Baevsky says her job is “all encompassing,” emphasizing, “I very a lot see the dichotomy of cooking for the wealthiest, well-known, most profitable folks on the planet, after which individuals who cannot put meals on their desk.”

“However there’s a lot extra to go,” she tells PEOPLE, hungry for extra. “I’ve a whole lot of targets.”

She says, “I need to do extra within the meals TV area, have my very own present, proceed to work on my cookbook and actually change into extra of a world no-name. I need to encourage and attain as many individuals as doable with my recipes and proceed to increase my foolish Chef Bae self on-line.”

To conclude, that might be her cherry on prime.