Nicole Pederson Moves From Seafood to Steak

Nicole Pederson carved out her own niche as a young chef to watch when at the helm of C-House, Marcus Samuelsson’s seafood-focused restaurant in Chicago. But when the opportunity to partner with Amy Morton of the Morton’s Steakhouse family arose, she discovered a new culinary home at Found, in Evanston, Ill.

Was it hard to leave C-House...