Jason Santos Cooks His Way from Grandma's Kitchen to the National Stage

Jason Santos grew up in the milieu of PBS cooking shows. Growing up in Melrose, amid a prototypical Gen X divorce—I’ve experienced one myself—Santos, the critically acclaimed chef of five restaurants, including the recently relaunched Citrus & Salt, spent afternoons with his grandmother. “My grandparents would pick us up from school, and I would go over to their house, and they would always have PBS on,” he says. Back then, public television—and not the Food Network, which would launch in 1993 (Santos is 48, and grew up squarely in the 1980s)—was a hotbed of culinary activity, laying claim to big-name culinary personaliti

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