Chef Craig Adcock on birthday rum cake and cracking pecans

A Mississippi boy can’t grow up far from a pecan tree. Living in a state that annually produces 6.5 million pounds of pecans, chef Craig Adcock was responsible for picking the nuts off 25 trees on his family’s property in the small town of Petal, Mississippi.

“When you got tired of cracking, then my parents sent me out to pick,” Adcock says.