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G. Garvin
G. Garvin, host of TV One's original series Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin, was
the executive chef and co-owner of a L.A. restaurant, which in less than a year
earned top honors from both the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles magazine, before
coming to TV One.
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Growing up in Atlanta with four sisters and a single mother, eating meant putting
food on the table. By age 13, he'd traded after-school football practice for a job
at Atlanta's haute Vining's Inn, where he soaped dishes and soaked up the inner
workings of a four-star operation.Two years later, Garvin landed at the Ritz-Carlton. As the youngest cook in the downtown
Atlanta hotel, he held summer and extracurricular positions there until he turned
18.
"There are no limits to what you can get," Garvin explains, "But you
have to forge it for yourself." Throughout the 1990's, Garvin pushed those limits
as executive chef at Morton's in West Hollywood, Kassbah in West Hollywood, and
sous chef at Ritz-Carlton Palm Springs at the tender age of 23.
