Marquise Cross — the owner of Gourmet Brothers Catering and its sibling food cart, Gourmet Brothers Grill — is in the restaurant industry because of his grandmother. But if you’re imagining a scene in a kitchen, with a young Cross assisting his household’s aproned matriarch as he learns to cook, the chef would be quick to correct you.
“People will assume that my grandmother is from the South, and that she was this great cook, but that wasn’t really it,” Cross says. “My grandma didn’t teach me how to cook; she taught me how to be successful at it.”
Cross’s grandmother, who raised him as well as her
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