To Chef Jernard Wells food, love, and heritage are one and the same. Growing up in Mississippi, he might have spent his days working on the family farm, but he spent his nights dreaming of something much bigger. In this episode the celebrity chef and runner up on Food Network Star talks growing up in a huge family, opening his first restaurant at the tender age of 16 just so he could buy a car, and how ambition keeps him from falling to what he calls “the demon of comparison”. From traveling the world to the stages of Food Network to being in front of the camera for his own show, Chef Jernard has lived a life driven by big love and even bigger dreams and he is here to share that inspiration with the world.