A new recipe for success: Chef Antwon Brinson’s Culinary Boot Camp helps local residents build life-changing kitchen careers


Antwon Brinson never thought he’d be a chef, but “I had a teacher that believed in me,” he says. “He’d seen something in me that I didn’t see in myself.” Now, he wants to do the same for others through his culinary training program. Photo: Robinson Imagery

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