While many young people “find themselves” in college or even after, chef Simone Byron has known from an early age that she was meant to cook. For the granddaughter of the founder of the first Black-owned catering company in the Bronx, who was also the former executive chef for civil rights hero Marcus Garvey, “it’s a deep-rooted thing,” she says. “I started my culinary journey in high school, went on to study Culinary Management at the Art Institute of Atlanta, then abroad in Switzerland and Italy,” she says, before moving on to cook for Disney brands, ESPN Zone in Buckhead and the largest food service company in the world, Compass Group. But after this running start, she looked inward, ...  Continue Reading