COMPETITOR

Team Indiana

HEAD COOK: Brady Foster

COMPETITION: World Rice Championship

I am a guy who grew up in a very poor and gang active neighborhood. Who grew a love for food from the pure fact that there was so little food around me. So I watched food network a lot and grew a stronger love for food. I worked at restaurants to learn how to do the things I saw on TV. My father worked at a fishmarket, so I was able to get a job there. I started at the fish market from the age of 13. Cleaning fish and discarding waste from the fish and other items my father made. From there I worked at a barbecue restaurant for four years. I left there and moved to Indianapolis. I got a job at a place called CiCi’s Pizza for 10 years as a general manager before I got an inch to become a chef. So I went to college and I graduated from a culinary school called Ivy Tech Community College. From there I worked at nursing homes and restaurants until I was able to afford my own restaurant. Sadly it was the march of 2020 when I opened the restaurant, and it was a week before the announcement of closure of the city due to Covid. I was close within a week but thank God was able to reopen six months later, and I’ve been open ever since. Now I’m trying to become a better student in Chef every single day.