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Notes from a young Black chef, a memoir by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein

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Notes from a young Black chef, a memoir by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Notes from a young Black chef

Oclc number

1041778332

Responsibility statement

a memoir by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein

Summary

By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi had openedand closedone of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with twenty thousand dollars that he made from selling candy on the subway, yet hed been told he would never make it on television because his cooking wasnt Southern enough. In this inspiring memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, he shares the remarkable story of his culinary coming-of-age. Growing up in the Bronx, as a boy Onwuachi was sent to rural Nigeria by his mother to learn respect. However, the hard-won knowledge gained in Africa was not enough to keep him from the temptation and easy money of the streets when he returned home. But through food, he broke out of a dangerous downward spiral, embarking on a new beginning at the bottom of the culinary food chain as a chef on board a Deepwater Horizon cleanup ship, before going on to train in the kitchens of some of the most acclaimed restaurants in the country and appearing as a contestant on Top Chef. Onwuachis love of food and cooking remained a constant throughout, even when he found the road to success riddled with potholes. As a young chef, he was forced to grapple with just how unwelcoming the world of fine dining can be for people of color, and his first restaurant, the culmination of years of planning, shuttered just months after opening. A powerful, heartfelt, and shockingly honest story of chasing your dreamseven when they dont turn out as you expectedNotes from a Young Black Chef is one mans pursuit of his passions, despite the odds

Table Of Contents

Standing on stories -- Egusi stew -- Dominoes -- Ancestors -- The block -- Gulf state -- Finding my craft -- CIA man -- Blood on the eggshells -- From old guard to start up -- Angles -- The jewel -- The lesson

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