Kwame Onwuachi - Notes from a Young Black Chef
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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We’re spending the hour with one of America’s rising chefs, Kwame Onwuachi of Washington DC’s Kith/Kin. His new memoir is Notes From a Young Black Chef. Francis Lam and Kwame talk about growing up and exploring food from all over the world, cutting his culinary teeth on an oil spill responder ship, and the layers of joy and frustration he experienced -- and what he learned -- from opening and closing the highly-anticipated The Shaw Bijou. Sally Swift also talks with Dan Souza from America’s Test Kitchen to learn about two ‘chef-y’ techniques for your kitchen: nitro cold-brew coffee, and cooking with koji.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- April 19, 2019
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| 1:19.6 | A little while ago, I got to have lunch with Kwame Amwachi, chef of the restaurant Kith |
| 1:25.4 | and Kin in Washington, D.C. Oh my god. |
| 1:28.3 | I know you just told me what I'm eating right now, but all I can say is like, what am I even eating right now? |
| 1:33.3 | This is, oh. |
| 1:35.3 | We were in his apartment, which is a very nice apartment, which he shares with his fiance and their dog, |
| 1:40.3 | but you can definitely tell it is a chef's apartment. |
| 1:43.3 | There is a whole room with no furniture, |
| 1:46.4 | and you just know he doesn't spend a whole lot of time hanging out at home. Outside his window, |
| 1:51.8 | you could see just construction cranes everywhere, and it's fancy condo building after |
| 1:58.3 | fancy condo building. It's a garden of fancy condo buildings, and it's spring, and they're all just sprouting up. |
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