Chef Reem Thompson has been cooking professionally since 2005 — culinary school in New York City, then years cooking for people whose meals had to be exactly right. He is also a certified personal trainer and nutritionist. Reem's Kitchen is that cooking, delivered to your door.
Since 2005
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Chef Reem Thompson, in the kitchen where every order is cooked.
Reem grew up in the Bronx. His dad has been his biggest culinary inspiration. He taught him how to cook, and he loved it from the start. That is where all of this comes from.
The Bronx came with its share of challenges. Cooking is what he chose instead, and he has not stopped since.
Culinary school, 2005
He earned his culinary arts degree in 2005 from one of the finest culinary schools in New York City. That is where the technique came from: sauces made from scratch, proteins cooked properly, and a standard where a plate either goes out right or it does not go out.
Cooking where the details matter
For years Reem cooked for an agency serving clients with serious medical conditions — 75 people a day, and almost none of them on the same menu. Allergies, restrictions, and diets set by their doctors. Get it wrong and it is not a bad review, it is a medical problem.
That is where he learned to build a menu around what a person's body actually needs, and still make it taste like food someone wants to eat.
A chef who is also a trainer
Reem is a certified personal trainer, certified nutritionist, and exercise therapist, certified through the ISSA. For the last six years that has been the focus: helping people lose weight, hit protein targets, and cut seed oils without living on dry chicken and steamed broccoli.
Most chefs cook. Most trainers write plans. He does both, which is why the calories and the protein on every meal are where they need to be.
Reem's Kitchen
Now he is bringing that to the rest of New York City. Same hands, same standards, packed in a container instead of plated at your table. He still cooks it himself, and every order is made fresh before it goes out.
"I was never going to make diet food. I cook the way I would cook for my own family. It just happens to be good for you."
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