Before he opened Sevy's Grill back in 1997, Severson had already piled up 23 years of food service experience...probably not counting his time at McDonald's as a teenager.The Michigan native studied at the famous Culinary Institute of America and worked several kitchens before earning a local following as chef at Dakota's. Aside from Sevy's--now a kind of institution--he's known as a founder of the Farmer's Market cooking class series.Severson, however, gives a lot of credit for all this success
