1. Names: Brandon P. Lockhart & Wes Lawrence
2. Position: Brandon: Head Chef at Parrish Baker Pub.
Wes: Head Chef at Parrish Baker Pub.
3. Age: Brandon: 22. Wes: 22.
4. Hometown: Brandon: Merietta, GA. Wes: Jackson, MS.
5. Early cooking: Brandon: Making salmon cream cheese wraps with the moms as a youngster. Wes: I always enjoyed cooking burgers & steaks on the grill.
6. Favorite Style of cooking? Brandon: Algonquin & Siberian blends. Wes: Slow.
7. Specialities: Brandon: The best reuben in town.
Wes: Dirty D & Ben’s One Pound Burger. If you like your wings hot as hell, I also do that really well!
8. Personal Specialties: Brandon: An old Lockhart recipe for fumunda cheese. Wes: Grilled chicken salad or the chicken club sandwich. I like chicken.
9. Favorite spice or ingredient: Brandon: Rendezvous Rib Rub is the jam note. Wes: Cavender’s.
10. Three items in your fridge: Brandon: There are only two things in my fridge - ketchup packets from Wendy’s and some old, grimy lettuce. Wes: Strawberry Jelly, beer, and apples.
11 Favorite cookbook: Brandon: The Square Cookbook. Wes: I don’t read any of those. I do like to watch “Take Home Chef.” That guy is a pimp.
12. What would you have at your last supper? Brandon: Momma’s lemon shrimp or Pop’s spaghetti with usually charred garlic bread. Wes: Ribs from Rendezvous in Memphis.
13. What was the last supper you ate? Brandon: 2 egg rolls, a pizza roll, and a chicken-on-a-stick. Wes: Grilled Chicken I think, or maybe Subway.
14. Favorite Midnight snack? Brandon: Cereal. Wes: I like to sneak into the kitchen after last call and make pizza crackers! But don’ tell Parrish.
15. Favorite Kitchen Music: Brandon: Some low-down, dirty, raw delta blues. Wes: Outkast Atliens.
16. Who would you most like to cook for? Brandon: An appreciative hungry person. Wes: Chris Farley. I think that would be fun and I know he would have eaten anything I cooked.
17. What would you prepare? Brandon: Whatever tickles the fancy. Wes: Steaks, mashed potatos, pizza, cornbread, chilidogs, pasta, burgers, and hot wings.
18. Where do you like to dine in Oxford? Brandon: Bottletree Bakery, Two Stick, Ajax Wes: City Grocery.
19. Aspirations: Brandon: Write a book and retire by 25. Wes: Move to the beach & retire young.
20. Favorite restuarant in the world: Wes: Chipotle.
21. Fried catfish: eat the tail, or no? Brandon: Some people like to eat tail. I am NOT one.
