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Grow it, Serve it, Teach it Raleigh native Sean Fowler, gets back to his roots. By Sioux watson photography by davies photography
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ean Fowler grew up on the outskirts of Raleigh, with a mother who had horses, a large kitchen and a family garden. Extended family included two southern grandmothers who cooked large but humble family meals. Sean was always around food prep – his father was involved in corporate Golden Corral restaurants for 30 years, but Sean felt early on he wanted nothing to do with following in his father’s footsteps and the food industry. Instead, he went off to small, prestigious Washington and Lee in Virginia, got a BA in history and planned to apply for law school. As graduation neared, though, law school fell by the wayside and he was drawn to the nonacademic
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