John Pick-Jacobs’ mother didn’t cook much while he was growing up, and neither did his grandmother, who helped raise him in a single-parent household. But his grandmother did love watching cooking shows on television.
“So his friends became those crazy TV cooks of every ethnicity,” said his mother, Elly Pick of Shorewood, who nominated Pick-Jacobs for Great Young Cook honors.
Pick-Jacobs graduated in the spring with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s applying to medical schools while working at a lab in Madison that researches prostate cancer and diabetes.