By Helen Mitternight
Chef Jamie Lynch is bleeding. As he sits in the dining room of 5Church Charleston, an emphatic gesture nudges a drop of blood from his finger onto a legal pad. And, while you might expect someone who has competed on Top Chef to shed blood after high-speed knife-play in the kitchen, this is a different kind of wound.
“That’s a shovel blister,” he says, taking a bandage from his girlfriend and farm manager, Corey McGovern.