Title: Chef de cuisine, The Brushmark Restaurant at Overton Park Age: 30 Who or what was your first cooking influence? Cooking with my grandfather -- probably at 6, 7 years old on the counter -- helped me decide that was gonna be a career as well. What was the first thing you ever cooked or baked? I can tell you two early memories. One was just buttermilk biscuits with my grandfather. The ...