Friday's, Steak 38, Holmes Lounge, the Marlton Tavern, the former Harbour League Club in Camden, and the Armadillo Steakhouse & Saloon in Edgewater Park, as sous chef he also worked at the Armadillo Steakhouse & Saloon in Barrington. He has worked in nine restaurants in New Jersey (some while doing on-the-job training during his year at the Academy of Culinary Arts at Atlantic Cape Community College), including T.G.I. įollowing his graduation from high school, McCargo took a month-long cake cooking class at Wilton Cake in Audubon, New Jersey, and began selling cakes and cookies throughout Camden. He took further cooking classes at Camden High School, graduating in 1989. He first studied cooking in a home economics class at Pyne Poynt Middle School in Camden and began cooking as a Junior Volunteer in the kitchen of Cooper University Hospital in Camden at age 13. He was encouraged by his father, Aaron McCargo, Sr., who is a fine cook, and his mother, Julia, who has a preference for food with a great deal of flavor. He began cooking in his family's kitchen at age seven. He became interested in cooking at age four, when he began baking cakes in his sister's Easy-Bake Oven. McCargo was born and also grew up in Camden, New Jersey, and is one of six children. (born July 22, 1971) is an American chef, television personality, and television show host who is best known as the winner of the fourth season of the Food Network's reality television show, The Next Food Network Star. Chef, television personality, television hostĪaron McCargo Jr.

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