This Rising Star Chef Is Vegan — And Only 11 Years Old

Chef Omari McQueen stands in the doorway of his vegan Caribbean pop-up restaurant Dipalicious.

An 11-year-old boy recently hit up 53-year-old Roger Wade on LinkedIn, wishing to open a restaurant one day. Wade wrote back: Why not now?

When Wade, CEO of Boxpark, a chain of hip food halls in London, was 11 years old himself, he sold candy to his schoolmates. He cited that memory as a heartstring plucked by Omari McQueen, the 11-year-old LinkedIn user. “Age doesn’t define a person any more than gender or race does,” Wade said. “We were happy to support a dream. Omari is a role model for dreaming big.”  READ MORE…