Heavyset balding man

Joseph Wilson, born on May 2, 1971, was the only child of Katherine and Ivan Wilson. Ivan was a mason, and Katherine baked out of her own kitchen after working in several five-star restaurants before the family settled in Oxford.

Since she didn't want to leave her son with a babysitter, Katherine started preparing orders for customers who picked them up.

She also prepared food for the residents in several nursing homes, but these she delivered, always bringing Joe along. She told Joe that these older people needed love, and some of them didn't even have families left to visit them. Joe knew at that moment what he was going to do when he grew up.

Joe loved the aromas of all the foods his mother made and spent most of his time in the kitchen with her. When he was just a toddler, his mother let him play with bowls and pots and pans to keep him occupied. At first, he just banged them together, but one day he started following his mother's example and playing that he was a cook.

When it came time to start school, Joe hated leaving the house all day and couldn't wait to return to the kitchen. He learned from his mother how to cook as well as bake and decorate cakes, and he never grew tired of it.

Joe felt the time he spent in school was simply a requirement that had to be fulfilled. He did the best he could, but he was eager for it to be over. When he graduated, he got a job as a dishwasher in a small restaurant.

When the owner discovered that Joe knew more about cooking than he did, he promoted Joe to head cook. From there, Joe moved on to better restaurants and learned even more techniques in cooking and baking.

Eventually, when Joe saw the ad for a cook wanted at the Yoknapatawpha Acres nursing home, he applied for it and got the job.

He met his wife-to-be there, and Joe and Beverly have been married for eight years. In 2014, when Beverly discovered she was expecting, she quit Yoknapatawpha Acres to become a full-time mom.

The Wilsons now have two children. Their son, five-year-old Joey, tells everyone that he wants to be a cook just like dad.

 

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