For me it is not about the showmanship, I am not the type to even take a picture of my food. What I did do though was grow up in a family of good southern cooks

For me it is not about the showmanship, I am not the type to even take a picture of my food. What I did do though was grow up in a family of good southern cooks on both sides of the family, so I had a foundation in cooking from a young age and developed a taste for quality. I can tell how something is made by tasting it, flavor is all I really care about in food, as such I became interested in developing flavor from a young age. I attended culinary school because of that and though I wanted to be a chef until I got a real job in a commercial kitchen and quickly revised my dreams away from the culinary arts all together. About the only thing I engage in showmanship on when it comes to cooking is BBQ Brisket, I am pretty damn proud of mine as it is a hard art to master.