Jeanie Roland

Jeanie Roland (born c.1966), is an American chef and restaurateur.

Early life and education Jeanie Kachergis was born to Alfred Kachergis, a Marine, and grew up in a Lithuanian neighborhood in Waterbury, Connecticut, developing an early interest in cooking. She swam competitively starting at age 3.

She started working in the restaurant industry at age 14, washing dishes. She received a bachelor's degree in exercise science from Southern Connecticut State University, where she was a competitive swimmer, and in 1992 graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. She and her husband then worked together as private chefs for a corporation. She and her husband moved to Florida and opened The Perfect Caper in Punta Gorda in 2001.

Roland has written two cookbooks, Butter, Love & Cream (2018) and The Perfect Caper Home Cooking (2022)

She defeated Bobby Flay in an episode of Beat Bobby Flay and competed on Iron Chef Gauntlet, Season 2.

Personal life Roland is married to James Roland, a fellow chef; the two met in California.