Wagner, Chef Otis J.

I was born in the 3rd ward section of Houston Texas, and there were eight siblings; six boys and two girls, Ronald, the late Bobbye Wagner, the late Johnnie Wagner, Chef OJ (Otis), Sandra, Gary (Joe), (twins) Kelvin and Melvin Wagner. My father was a baker in the US army and they called them 'dough heads'. This was back in the early 1950s. My father did a lot of baking around the house when I was a kid and this is what sparked me on this journey and when I began to develop my love for food. I didn't become a chef until 1988. I started out as a yellow cab driver in Manhattan, New York and reali...