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In
1996, with 8 years of restaurant work already under
his belt and an itch for a break from the midwest,
Jeremy Bringardner set out for Rhode Island, to
attend America’s best 4-year culinary program.
At the end of his first year, he was selected out
of a class of 900 students to receive the Culinary
Freshman of the year award and academic scholarship.
In 1998, he went abroad to Brussels, Belgium, to
complete an apprenticeship at Restaurant L’Alban
Chambon. Upon returning to Providence, Rhode Island,
newly inspired and more ambitious than ever, he
landed a job at Al Forno Restaurant,—named
“the best casual restaurant in the world”
by International Herald Tribune food critic and
cookbook author Patricia Wells. In 2001, he graduated
summa cum laude from Johnson & Wales University
with degrees in Culinary Arts and Nutrition. |
