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John Currence is an American chef based in Oxford, Mississippi. {{as of|2017}} he owns four restaurants in Oxford, City Grocery, Big Bad Breakfast, Bourè, and Snackbar, as well as two Big Bad Breakfast locations in Florida and Alabama and a catering business, The Main Event. He won a James Beard Award in 2009 and participated in the third season of the Bravo television competition Top Chef Masters.

Early life

John Currence was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. The majority of his childhood was spent in the American South, but in the early 1970s his family moved to the United Kingdom. His mother, a history teacher, took Currence and his brother out of school for four-day weekends to travel around Europe and experience the cuisines of Italy, Germany, and France.^[1] After returning to the Carolinas and graduating high school, Currence attended Hampden-Sydney College and the University of North Carolina. One of his part-time jobs while at the university was as a dishwasher at Bill Neal's Crook's Corner restaurant, which had recently been profiled by The New York Times.^[1]

His first cooking job was on a tugboat in the Gulf of Mexico, but his professional career began under Bill Neal at his Chapel Hill, North Carolina restaurant, Crooks Corner.^[1] In 1989, Currence returned to New Orleans to be sous chef at Gautreau's, co-owned by Larkin Selman.^[1]

In 1992, Currence began to plan a restaurant of his own. He was inspired to re-open City Grocery, a restaurant in Oxford, Mississippi that had been built inside a Reconstruction era livery stable.^[1] Currence still lives in Oxford with his wife, Bess.^[1]

Career

Restaurants

Currence owns four restaurants in Oxford, Mississippi: City Grocery, Bourè, Snackbar, and Big Bad Breakfast, which he expanded to include locations in Inlet Beach, Florida, Florence, Alabama, and Birmingham, Alabama. He also owns The Main Event, a catering business based in Oxford for in-house and off-site catering events. A fifth Oxford-based venture, Lamar Lounge, since closed. According to Vogue, "[y]ou can't visit Oxford without hearing someone sing the praises of Chef John Currence."^[2]

City Grocery was Currence's first restaurant, with a Southern and traditional Creole French menu, opened in 1992, and has been in Oxford Courthouse Square since 1996. The New York Times recommended "its rowdy upstairs bar and elegant dining below".^[3] It was named one of the "South's Best Bars" by Southern Living in 2013.^[4] In fall 1999, it won its first of several Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence.^[5]

Big Bad Breakfast started in Oxford, but later spawned additional locations in Florida and Alabama. Another is planned for Atlanta, Georgia.^[6] It has received recognition from publications like The Culture Trip, which named it one of the best diners in the South by in 2016,^[7] The Daily Meal,^[8] Serious Eats,^[9] and Travel and Leisure.^[10]

Currence bought barbecue restaurant Lamar Lounge in 2012. It received attention from publications like Sports Illustrated^[11] and Garden & Gun,^[12] but closed in 2016. It reopened as Fat Eddie's, an American Italian restaurant, which itself closed in 2017.^[13]

TV appearances

Currence was featured as a contestant on season 3 of the reality television cooking competition Top Chef Masters. He won the second week of the competition, "Everything Old is New Again", but was knocked out in the third episode. Bravo TV, the network on which Top Chef Masters is hosted, released John Currence's pre competition interview.^[14]

Currence joined Andrew Zimmern on the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods, exploring The Blues Trail to try unusual BLT sandwiches, including one made with testicles.^[15]

He has also appeared on an episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations: Parts Unknown, about the Mississippi Delta and southern culture.^[2]^[16]

In 2009 he was featured on the CBS Early Show during a segment called "A Chef on a Shoestring". The segment featured how to cook a three-course meal for four for under $35.^[17]

Publications

Currence has published two books, Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey: Recipes from My Three Favorite Food Groups and Then Some and Big Bad Breakfast: The Most Important Book of the Day. Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey was featured or reviewed by The New York Times Book Review, which called it "a culinary rebel yell in a new key",^[18] as well as The Washington Post,^[19] Eater,^[20] and others. Big Bad Breakfast was featured as the Los Angeles Times Cookbook of the Week.^[21]

Awards and recognition

John Currence was the recipient of the James Beard Award in 2009 for Best Chef South.^[22] The Southern Documentary Project filmed the announcement and his acceptance speech.^[23] The Mississippi Restaurant Association awarded him the Restaurateur of the Year and Chef of the Year awards.^[24] In 2008, Currence won The Great American Seafood Cookoff hosted annually in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Southern Foodways Alliance awarded Currence the Guardian of Tradition award in 2006, and he was awarded the Mississippi State Tourism Investment Award in 2015.^[25]^[26] In 2014 the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) awarded Currence Best Cookbook Award for Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey.^[27]

Philanthropy and activism

Currence was featured in The New York Times for launching the Big Gay Mississippi Welcome Table, a protest against Governor Phil Bryant's signing of the anti-gay House Bill 1523.^[28]^[29]

When interviewed for Top Chef Masters, he emphasized that if he won the competition, he would donate prize money to No Kid Hungry, a fund to end childhood hunger in the United States.^[30]

References

1. ^¹²³⁴⁵{{Cite news |url=http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2014/oct/01/john-currence-big-bad-chef/|title=John Currence: Big Bad Chef |newspaper=Jackson Free Press |last=|first=|date=October 1, 2014 }}
2. ^¹{{cite web|work=Vogue|title=From Football to Fine Dining, a Guide to Oxford, Mississippi|last=Roderique-Jones|first=Anne|date=July 20, 2017|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/oxford-mississippi-travel-guide}}
3. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/travel/faulkner-and-football-in-oxford-miss.html|title=Travel: Of Parties, Prose and Football|last=Garner|first=Dwight|date=October 4, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.southernliving.com/travel/south-best-bars|title=South's Best Bars|last=Cole|first=Jennifer V.|date=2013|work=Southern Living}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://citygroceryonline.com/sample-page/|title=About City Grocery Restaurant Group|publisher=City Grocery|accessdate=October 18, 2016}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://atlanta.eater.com/2016/9/21/12991532/john-currence-brunch-atlanta-5church|title=Chef John Currence Is Coming to Atlanta for a Big Bad Brunch|last=Fuhrmeister|first=Chris|date=September 21, 2016|website=Eater Atlanta|publisher=|access-date=}}
7. ^{{cite web|work=The Culture Trip|url=https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/the-12-best-diners-in-the-southern-states/|last=White|first=Sophia|date=October 24, 2016|title=The 12 Best Diners in the Southern States of America}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailymeal.com/sandwich-week-big-bad-breakfast-s-southern-belly-sandwich|title=Sandwich of the Week: Big Bad Breakfast's Southern Belly Sandwich|last=Bouchard|first=Skyler|date=March 8, 2013|website=The Daily Meal}}
9. ^{{cite web|work=Serious Eats|url=http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/09/best-biscuit-breakfast-sandwiches-in-america-usa-slideshow.html#show-268390|title=Gallery: Great Biscuit Breakfasts Across America Worth An Escape|date=September 2012}}
10. ^{{cite web|work=Travel & Leisure|url=http://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/best-breakfasts-around-the-world#big-bad-breakfast-oxford-ms|title=Best Breakfasts Around the World|date=March 7, 2013}}
11. ^{{cite web|work=Sports Illustrated|url=https://www.si.com/college-football/2015/08/17/tcu-horned-frogs-offense-gary-patterson-sonny-cumbie-doug-meacham?page=2&devicetype=default|title=The philosophical change that made TCU a title threat; Punt, Pass & Pork|last=Stapes|first=Andy|date=August 16, 2015}}
12. ^{{cite web|work=Garden & Gun|url=http://gardenandgun.com/articles/the-barbecue-bucket-list/|title=The Barbecue Bucket List|date=June 26, 2015}}
13. ^{{cite web|work=The Oxford Eagle|url=http://m.oxfordeagle.com/2017/05/23/fat-eddies-restaurant-closes-for-good/|title=Fat Eddie’s restaurant closes for good|date=May 23, 2017}}
14. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef-masters/season-3/videos/meet-john-currence |title=Meet John Currence |last=|type=video |publisher=Bravo TV |access-date=October 18, 2016}}
15. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/bizarre-foods/articles/blt |title=Bizarre Food of the Week: BLT |publisher=The Travel Channel |type=video |accessdate=18 October 2016 }}
16. ^{{cite web |first=Khushbu |last=Shah |url=http://www.eater.com/2014/5/19/6222671/parts-unknowns-mississippi-episode-just-the-one-liners |title=Parts Unknown's Mississippi Episode: Just the One-Liners |website=Eater.com |date=May 19, 2014 }}
17. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/award-worthy-southern-cuisine-on-a-budget/|title=Award-Worthy Southern Cuisine, on a Budget|last=|first=|date=2009|work=|access-date=|via=}}
18. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/books/review/heston-blumenthals-historic-heston-and-more.html|work=The New York Times Book Review|last=Grimes|first=William|title=Cooking|date=December 6, 2013}}
19. ^{{cite web|work=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/best-cookbooks-of-2013/2013/12/10/077bd6f4-61b6-11e3-94ad-004fefa61ee6_gallery.html|title=Best Cookbooks of 2013|date=December 10, 2013}}
20. ^{{cite web|work=Eater|last=Forbes|first=Paula|url=https://www.eater.com/2013/2/19/6479447/john-currences-first-cookbook-pickles-pigs-and-whiskey-coming-this|title=John Currence's First Cookbook, 'Pickles, Pigs, and Whiskey,' Coming This Fall|date=February 19, 2013}}
21. ^{{Cite news |first=Amy |last=Scattergood |url=http://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-cookbook-big-bad-breakfast-currence-20160718-snap-story.html |title=Cookbook of the week: 'Big Bad Breakfast' by John Currence |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |date=September 15, 2016 }}
22. ^{{Cite web |url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search?page=4&year=2009 |publisher=James Beard Foundation |title=James Beard Awards, 2009 |access-date=October 18, 2016 }}
23. ^{{Cite web |url=https://vimeo.com/4866228|title=John Currence Wins James Beard Award - 2009 Best Chef South |author=The Southern Documentary Project |type=video |website=Vimeo |year=2009 |access-date=October 18, 2016 }}
24. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2014/oct/01/john-currence-big-bad-chef/|title=John Currence: Big Bad Chef|last=|first=|date=|work=|access-date=|via=}}
25. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.oxfordeagle.com/2015/09/30/oxfords-john-currence-receives-state-tourism-investment-award/|title=Oxford's John Currence receives state tourism investment award |newspaper=Oxford Eagle |date=September 30, 2015 }}
26. ^{{Cite news|url=https://mstourism.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/press-release-2015-govervors-conference-award-winners.doc |title=Mississippi Tourism Association Presents Industry Achievement Awards at Governor's Conference on Tourism |publisher=Mississippi Tourism Association |type=press release |date=September 29, 2015 |via=Google cache |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622215152/http://mstourism.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/press-release-2015-govervors-conference-award-winners.doc |archivedate=June 22, 2016 |df= }}
27. ^{{cite web|work=SIBA|title=2014 SIBA Book Award Winners|url=https://www.sibaweb.com/booksellers/book-award-booksellers/589-2014-siba-book-award-winners}}
28. ^{{cite news |first=Kim |last=Severson |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/dining/mississippi-chefs-to-protest-state-law-on-the-eve-of-annual-picnic.html?_r=0 |title=Mississippi Chefs to Protest State Law on the Eve of Annual Picnic |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 5, 2014 }}
29. ^{{Cite web |first=Wyatt |last=Williams |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/wyattwilliams/chef-john-currence-wants-to-save-mississippi-from-itself |title=The Chef Who's Leading The Backlash Against Mississippi's New Anti-Gay Law |website=Buzzfeed |date=June 30, 2014}}
30. ^{{Cite web |url=https://www.nokidhungry.org |title=End Child Hunger in America|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}