Spending a few years in Gainesville when he was growing up, and most every summer at his grandparents home on Lake Lanier after moving away, Brian Young remembers having to make sure his shirt was tucked in, his elbows weren’t on the table and he wasn’t chewing with his mouth open while gathered with family for meals. It was just the Southern way.That Southern way drew him to cooking. Those memories and others of cooking with his grandmother, Barbara Young, were the genesis of his career.
Meet the ‘Top Chef’ contestant with Gainesville roots