“Everyone’s always like, ‘ooh Brooklyn thinks he’s a professional chef.’ I’m not a professional chef at all, I just love cooking.”
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham
story by KALEA MARTIN
The year is 2024, and Brooklyn Peltz Beckham is standing in the Today Show studio kitchen with Hoda Kotb and Carson Daly, cooking up the breakfast sandwich that his great-grandmother taught him how to make. He quietly dabs a greasy piece of bacon on a paper towel, pushes sausage around a cast iron, which he describes as his “favorite pan”, and cracks open two eggs, making sure to break the yolks with his finger. Carson and Hoda fill the silence with polite questions to gently move along the segment like, “Oh, you take the casing out?” and “What about the ketchup?” It’s slow, simple, almost painfully unflashy. And it’s also the clip people refuse to let him outgrow.
Fast-forward to today, and you’d swear you were watching a completely different cook. On TikTok, Brooklyn expertly deshells fresh lobster, makes a steak sandwich from scratch in a wood-fired oven, and casually whips up a beef Wellington. He plates up dinner like it’s about to be served in a restaurant, cooking alongside acclaimed chefs like Michelin-starred restaurateur Michel Roux Jr.
Still, people are stuck on the hits: that Today Show breakfast sandwich, the time he blow torched a grilled cheese, that “simple tomato pasta” he made that consisted only of tomatoes, pasta, and parmesan cheese and nothing else. So the consensus remains: Amateur. Performative. Nepo baby playing chef. But Brooklyn is a lot more serious about food than people realize. Here’s what he says about his culinary career.
On how he first got into cooking:
“I’ve always loved food, and obviously when quarantine hit, I just really started to get into it. My fiancé started filming me, and I started posting it, and it’s just something that I love doing,” he tells Today.
“It was something that I did every day, had a glass of wine, cooked for my fiancé,” he further explains to Vogue.
But quarantine didn’t spark the interest so much as fan the flame. Brooklyn says his earliest food memories come from cooking with his family, particularly his great-grandmother’s breakfast sandwich, about which he tells Uber Eats UK, “That was definitely one of my first moments where I found that I love cooking. My dad and me, we always cook the sandwich—we just have the most fun together.”
On being a professional chef:
Murmurs about Brooklyn’s “performative” cooking hobby first came about during a street interview with content creator Daniel Mac. Daniel had asked Brooklyn what he does for a living, to which Brooklyn responded with, “I’m a chef.” Upon being asked if he considered himself the best chef in the world, Brooklyn responded with a half-serious “Trying to be.”
Contrary to what he said in the moment, Brooklyn doesn’t actually identify with that title. “Everyone’s always like, ‘ooh Brooklyn thinks he’s a professional chef.’ I’m not a professional chef at all, I just love cooking,” he admits in a TikTok, ironically while making a caviar-topped omelet.
Brooklyn is, however, an unabashed foodie. “I’ve been lucky enough to live in some pretty cool places. I’ve always been into trying different cuisines. I got my wife on Indian and Chinese takeaway. She’s obsessed with it now.” Brooklyn says to Uber Eats UK.
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He’s also candid about experimenting beyond his skill level. “I’m very experimental. I love trying to make new drinks, trying new recipes. I’m a nutter in the kitchen,” he shares with Bustle.
On his culinary career:
While Brooklyn might not see himself as a chef in the Gordon Ramsay lane, he’s still very much eyeing a future in the food industry—even if that future doesn’t have him behind the stove.
In conversation with podcast Not Skinny But Not Fat, Brooklyn explains that his real interest lies in the design and branding side of food. That’s where Cloud 23 comes in—the condiment brand he spent three years developing, that now sells hot sauce in three flavors.
“I wanted to go into the business aspect of cooking,” he says. And that tracks. Brooklyn’s resume already includes partnerships with Chosen Foods, Silk NextMilk, and Barilla Pasta, but Cloud 23 is the long game. He’s talked openly about expanding it into a full condiment line—spicy mayo, hot honey, the works.
“I want to do seven to 10 of my favorite condiments, all under the umbrella of hot sauce, like a spicy mayo or hot honey, stuff like that. So in five years I would love to have a successful condiment brand,” he tells Delish of his aspirations. “We’ll see. Five years is a long time. I’m keeping busy all the time, but right now, this is where my heart is.”
On opening a restaurant:
For years, Brooklyn has been toying with the idea of being involved in the restaurant business. “Not like a chef — I’m always going to be learning about cooking,” he clarifies to Variety, explaining he wants to “hopefully one day open up a pub in LA, because LA needs a pub.” That was back in 2022. Fast forward to 2026, and more solid plans are underway.
While Brooklyn had originally imagined his restaurant to be a pub that would serve “a healthier version of comfort food” (per Variety), it seems burgers have stolen the spotlight. After a successful collab with Hamburger America at NYC Wine & Food Festival’s Burger Bash event, now an LA-based burger restaurant called Beck’s Burgers is reportedly in the works, trademark filed and everything.
For Beck’s Burgers, Brooklyn is leaning on his in-laws. His wife Nicola Peltz is the daughter of Nelson Peltz, who served as chairman of Wendy’s for 17 years, which means the burger business is very much a family affair.
As for why food, of all things? Brooklyn puts it simply: he wanted his own lane.
“I played soccer my whole life, and I loved it so much, but I don’t know, I just kind of wanted to do something different—make a name for myself and go different way,” Brooklyn tells Not Skinny But Not Fat.
Chef or not, one thing’s clear: Brooklyn Beckham isn’t pretending to clock in at a Michelin kitchen. He’s building, experimenting, and very publicly figuring it out. And whether you’re rolling your eyes or placing an order, the food world is officially part of his story now.
Brooklyn Beckham’s English Breakfast Sandwich Recipe
This was a dish I learned from my great-grandma, and I cherish it because it reminds me of my childhood. It’s a traditional English breakfast sandwich and I love making my American friends try this English staple.
Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 4 slices English bacon
- 4 country sausages
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 4 slices soft white bread
- Ketchup, to serve
Preparation:
- Add the olive oil to a cast-iron skillet set over medium heat, place the bacon in the pan and cook 3 to 5 minutes, or until crispy on both sides. Remove bacon and place onto a paper towel-lined plate to remove excess grease.
- Then add sausages into the same pan, searing evenly on all sides. After about 2 to 3 minutes, slice them in half while keeping the two sides attached and cook the inside until crispy. Remove from pan and place onto plate with the bacon.
- Add 2 eggs into the same skillet and season with salt and pepper. These should cook quickly with the existing oil in the pan.
- Assemble all ingredients on top of the bread to make two sandwiches, drizzle with ketchup, cut in half and serve.
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