Rock is nationally-recognized chef, community activist, and restaurateur who gained national attention by winning the Fox Reality television cooking show Hell's Kitchen, hosted by the legendary Chef Gordon Ramsay. Rock discovered the culinary arts during his teenaged years while spending summers in his grandmother’s kitchen in Tappahannock, Virginia making her angel biscuits and apple butter. Rock took that culinary inspiration and experience with him to Johnson and Wales University Norfolk, Virginia where he would graduate in 1996. Chef Rock has extensive restaurant experience, most notably serving at the Executive Chef for B. Smith's in Washington DC.