Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir

Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir

â€œKwame Onwuachiâ€™s story shines a light on food and culture not just in American restaurants or African American communities but around the world.â€ â€”Questlove
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By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi (winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Award forÂ Rising Star Chef of the Year)Â had openedâ€”and closedâ€”one 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 heâ€™d been told he would never make it on television because his cooking wasnâ€™t â€œSouthernâ€ 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 â€œlearn respect.â€ 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.

Onwuachiâ€™s 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 dreamsâ€”even when they donâ€™t turn out as you expectedâ€”Notes from a Young Black ChefÂ is one manâ€™s pursuit of his passions, despite the odds.

â€œThis is an astonishing and open-hearted story from one of the next generationâ€™s stars of the culinary world. I am so excited to see what the future holds for Chef Kwameâ€”he is a phoenix, rising into better and better things and showing us all what it means to be humble, hungry, and daring.â€ â€”JosÃ© AndrÃ©s
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
Color Red
ReleaseDate 2019-04-09
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781524732622

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Red
ReleaseDate	2019-04-09
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9781524732622

Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir

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