With his latest reality TV stint behind him, renowned chef Nick Wallace aims to aid his community—and change some perceptions.
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“We’re going to have a farm that’s going to be here outside of the building,” Wallace says, motioning around the space. “We’re going to do farmer’s markets. It’s going to be little bays right here during the farmer’s market, twice a week.” “As soon as you walked out, you might be stepping on sweet potatoes,” he remembers. “To the left was the chicken coop. Over the fence were the cows. We had a lot of wild mushrooms on the property, wild berries, figs — everything that you wanted.”
When he was 15, he began taking on roofing jobs, and then found his first restaurant job at Fernando’s, a Mexican restaurant in Ridgeland, but never made it past the prep line. In quick succession, he was hired as a cook at Outback Steakhouse and then graduated to Schimmel’s, where he worked under Derek Emerson, whose metro-area restaurants now include Caet, Local 463 and Walker’s Drive-In. At that point, though, cooking was still a paycheck.
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