Brian Lagerstrom

Brian Lagerstrom , is an American chef and YouTuber who resides in St. Louis, Missouri. 
==Early Life & Culinary Experience== 
Lagerstrom was born in 1987 in Detroit, Michigan. He live there until he was in his teens when his family move to Crystal Lake, Illinois. Lagerstrom would move to Chicago for university, where he would study finance. While in schooling, he worked as a bank teller. 
After university he decided to get into the culinary field instead and worked as a line chef at Lula Café and Sepia, and then eventually move to St. Louis to work as a sous chef in Niche Food Group, however he eventually got burnt out as a chef and decided to transition into baking. He worked as a bread baker in Union Loafers Cafe and Bread Bakery in St. Louis. 
Later Lagerstrom was hired as a consultant chef for a food company, where he worked until 2020 when he was laid off due to the pandemic. 
==YouTube Career== 
Lagerstrom created the channel "WeedsSardines" for gardening vlogs in March, 23, 2020, after getting laid off. He originally only made gardening videos until he was inspired by Adam Ragusea and J. Kenji López-Alt to make cooking videos. Cooking videos became more popular than his gardening videos so he stopped making them entirely a year in and changed his channel's name to his real name. He would later make cooking and baking content full-time as his channel became successful.
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