Darnell “SuperChef” Ferguson has an impressive roster of accomplishments, from cooking for Team USA at the 2008 Summer Olympics, to becoming a breakout star chef contestant on Food Network, to opening three hit restaurants in the South. His restaurant Superhero Chefs, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, was named one of the “Top 12 Best Breakfasts in America” by the Cooking Channel.
But success did not come easy for Ferguson.
Born in Philadelphia, Ferguson grew up in Columbus, Ohio after his single mom relocated them to seek a better life. She married when Ferguson was in the fifth grade, and he recalls having a loving childhood and enjoying cooking as a teenager. He moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 2005 to study culinary arts at Sullivan College, but struggled on his own.
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