MASON HEREFORD GREW UP in a region of rural Virginia with country-style convenience stores dotted along his family’s morning school runs. Over-the-counter eats like sausage biscuits and turkey-and-cheese sandwiches from those stores stood out to him through the years and kick-started an interest in food that endures.
After college, Mason arrived in New Orleans and worked odd jobs around the city before finding himself in fine dining. Eventually, he went back to those rural roots and opened his restaurant Turkey and the Wolf in the city’s Irish Channel district in 2016, bringing country store spirit
