When Charlie Martin was in elementary school, he’d go to his grandmother’s house every week and ask the same question: “Will you cook me a chicken pie?”
By the time he was 7, he was in the kitchen alongside her, learning how to make that chicken pie. After a half-dozen lessons, he was baking them on his own.
“When I was 8, I started grilling whatever I could, just to see how it would turn out,” said Martin now 15. “After I showed my folks a few times that I could cook, they started trusting me to do it on my own.”
Martin said when he was about 9, and out of school for the summer, he’d stay up until 11:30 or midnight and get bored. So he’d head into the kitchen and cook a full meal.
Martin is a sophomore at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, where he plays right tackle and middle linebacker for the football team and is an outfielder and pitcher for the baseball team.
His mother, Kristi, owns Black Sheep Boutique in Tupelo and his father, Grant, is the principal at Dorsey Attendance Center. He has four brothers – Noah, Braeden, Sam and Will.
Martin learned to make chocolate gravy from his maternal grandmother, Linda Shackelford Greene of Tupelo, but the majority of his culinary skills came from his paternal grandmother, Kaye Martin, who lives across the street.
Martin started out grilling chicken and steaks, but now he likes to grill fish and vegetables.
Martin also likes to bake cupcakes, muffins and casseroles, and he makes his pasta from flour and egg yolks.
Source: Ghanfuo.com
