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Miami’s first and only “Top Chef” winner, Jeremy Ford, wrestled Anthony Bourdain.

He wrestled with demons as a Miami chef. And he wrestles with raising three daughters.

Ford has a Hollywood vibe, but he's a down-to-earth guy who gave up cooking for a stretch to look after his diabetic mother. It was her diabetes diagnosis when he was 8 that led him to grow his own food for the family and make "clean eating" a thing long before it was cool.

He talks about how his late mother, who was adopted, found her biological family and Ford learned he had an Italian grandmother — who taught him how to cook Italian food at 14.

It changed his life.

We get into all of it, plus his being awarded a Michelin star at his South Beach restaurant Stubborn Seed, his branching out with new restaurants.

PLUS! And update on La Planchita — sandwich days are coming soon, we hope.

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