Duff Goldman

About

Jeffrey Adam “Duff” Goldman (born December 17, 1974) is an American businessman, pastry chef, television personality, and writer. He is the executive chef of Baltimore’s Charm City Cakes shop, which was featured in the Food Network reality television show Ace of Cakes, and Los Angeles’s Charm City Cakes West, which was featured in Food Network’s Duff Till Dawn and “Cake Masters” series. His work has also been featured on the Food Network Challenge, Iron Chef America, Oprah, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Man v. Food, Buddy vs. Duff, Duff Takes the Cake, and Duff’s Happy Fun Bake Time.

Goldman was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a Jewish family. Goldman’s nickname Duff came about when he was a baby. His toddler brother, Willie Goldman, was unable to pronounce Jeffrey and kept saying Duffy. When he was four years old, his mother caught him in her kitchen wielding a meat cleaver and watching food personality Chef Tell.
After his parents divorced when he was ten, Goldman lived in Northern Virginia and in Sandwich, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. From age fourteen, he began to work in kitchens; his first job was at a bagel store at a mall. Goldman also worked as a fry cook at…