Famous folks from South Boston

Barbara Lynch The chef overseeing a local restaurant empire still boxes at a local Southie gym. Lynch was raised by a single mother in the Mary Ellen McCormack housing projects. As a teenager, she ran numbers for bookies. Lynch was obsessed with cooking as a child. She looked up Julia Child in the phone book and called her Cambridge home, but hung up when Child answered.
Laurie Swope for The Boston Globe
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Barbara Lynch

The chef overseeing a local restaurant empire still boxes at a local Southie gym.

Lynch was raised by a single mother in the Mary Ellen McCormack housing projects. As a teenager, she ran numbers for bookies.

Lynch was obsessed with cooking as a child. She looked up Julia Child in the phone book and called her Cambridge home, but hung up when Child answered.