Ricky Moore is an American chef who owns Saltbox Seafood Joint in Durham, North Carolina.
He won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: Southeast in 2022 Ricky Moore was born at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, and by the age of seven had lived in Germany, Kentucky, and Texas because of his father's military career.
[4][5][8] Following his culinary education, Moore interned and worked in commercial kitchens in Asia (Singapore), Europe, the Middle East, and North America.
[4][9] Restaurants have included Charlie Trotter's, Equinox and Frontera Grill, IndeBleu, Le Tarbouche, Lespinasse, Tru (Chicago), and Vidalia.
Moore competed against Michael Symon on Iron Chef America, and has been featured in the magazines Garden & Gun,[3] Our State,[1] and Travel + Leisure.
[2] He also filmed the documentary miniseries The Hook for the public broadcasting network PBS North Carolina.