Pulse
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BY ALISON BAILIN BATZ / PHOTOS BY CLAUDIA JOHNSTONE
A CULINARY TRIUMPH
Kellie Pruitt dishes on her route to being a restaurateur and the opening of her new concept, PNPK
Growing up, Kellie Pruitt lived for … reruns of Perry Mason? “I loved the law, and in the show, Mason would defend these falsely accused people while seeking the real criminals and bringing them to justice,” says Pruitt, whose passion only grew when her father served on the local city council, which resulted in Pruitt
getting to go on police ride-alongs. She was so passionate, in fact, that by her early twenties, Pruitt was working as a police officer herself. “While I loved serving, seeing many of life’s atrocities on a daily basis was having an abysmal effect on me, emotionally and
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