Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen, Memphis

Born and bred Memphians Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman have a long standing passion for food, a passion that led them from the tutelage of Master Chef Jose Guitierrez, to Charleston, South Carolina, to studies abroad in Calabria and Lyon with the Italian Culinary Institute. After training across Europe, the two came home to become co-chefs of their own restaurant in Memphis, to focus on Italian cooking with Southern roots at their restaurant Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen. The two chefs recently opened their newest restaurant, Hog & Hominy, a wood burning, neighborhood eatery.