Sixty-one-year-old Shirlene Ingraham continues to share delicious foods across Miami, FL. At the age of 7, Ingraham’s love for cooking began while she worked for her family’s business, the Miami Herald reports. Her parents, Jessie and Demas Jackson, were the proud owners of Jackson Soul Food. The first location was built in 1946 and was located in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood. When she became a young adult, Ingraham first pursed a career in criminology. However, she was not fulfilled when she moved back home to secure a job post. “My parents had a restaurant in Overtown since 1946. I went off to college in Gainesville at Santa Fe College to study criminology and then came back home,” Ingraham told the Miami Herald. “I started working in the Miami Police Department. One day I decided I didn’t want to work in law enforcement anymore.” Ingraham would then transition into the restaurant sector. As a child working at Jackson Soul Food , she had taken food orders while standing on a...