Kwame Onwuachi, NOTES FROM A YOUNG BLACK CHEF

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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James Beard Award-winning chef Kwame Onwuachi opens up to Zibby about the events that shaped his life and went into his memoir, Notes from a Young Black Chef. He shares how he manages to maintain his positive mindset every day, why his approach to food, fashion, and nail polish is all the same, and the responsibility he feels to share his unique story with the world.

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0:40.2	Welcome to Memoir Day of my June book blast. I'm releasing a bunch of really powerful, amazing memoir episodes today, and I really hope
0:47.9	you enjoy them. Memoir is like my favorite literary genre. I don't know what yours is, but I love
0:53.1	memoirs. I always learned so much, and this is
0:55.6	part one of the memoirs I have to release in this book blast. Enjoy. Quame on Wachi is the author of
1:02.4	notes from a young black chef. He's the author of the adult version and also the adapted for
1:07.4	young adults version. Quami is the James Beard Award-winning executive chef at
1:12.0	Kith slash kin in Washington, D.C. He was born on Long Island and raised in New York City, Nigeria,
1:17.2	and Louisiana. Unwachi was first exposed to cooking by his mother in his family's modest
1:22.6	Bronx apartment, and he took that spark of passion and turned it into a career. From toiling in the
1:27.3	bowels of oil cleanup ships to working at career, from toiling in the bowels of
1:27.8	oil clean-up ships to working at some of the best restaurants in the world, he has seen
1:32.1	and lived his fair share of diversity. Unwatchy trained at the Culinary Institute of America
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