Damion Brown is a Jamaican-American chef who began his career at age 10, hanging out at his family's popular west indian restaurants in Miami and New York that catered for the island diaspora - including Bob Marley's family in Florida.
Since then he embarked on a 35-country food safari, worked in restaurants around the world, and has been head chef everywhere from intimate wine cellars to film sets such as The Great Gatsby.
He now has a restaurant called Jonkanoo in Surry Hills: www.jonkanoo.com.au/
As well as a brand new Canteen at Goodgod Small Club.