![]() And then inherently, I also learned a lot about cooking." "I spent a couple of years there, learning about my culture, my ancestors' traditions that I wasn't familiar with. ![]() So his mother sent him to live with his father's relatives in Nigeria. "I was definitely veering off on the wrong path as a kid growing up in the South Bronx," he says. Here, a plate of charred brassicas, served with Nigerian red sauce. Onwuachi's life story is written in his recipes. But that road began in a one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx, where he grew up with his mother and sister. Eventually, there would be a stint on Top Chef, work in the best restaurants in America, the opening of his first place in D.C. His road to the rarefied world of fine cuisine has had many fits and starts, which he details in a new memoir, Notes From A Young Black Chef. These days, Onwuachi is a rising star in the food world - the executive chef at Kith and Kin, a celebrated Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Washington, D.C., and a nominee this year for a prestigious James Beard award. And I want to explore this a little bit more." "Here's something that brings back these fond memories. "I didn't know that I wanted to cook, but it was like, here's something that I'm familiar with," he says. He went to the grocery store and bought ingredients to cook a chicken curry. And I immediately flushed everything that I had down the toilet and was like, I need to find myself," Onwuachi recalls. He was, he says, lost.īut when he saw President Obama, something clicked. He was dealing drugs to survive after he dropped out of college. It was the morning after the election of America's first black president, and Kwame Onwuachi was hungover. ![]() Chef Kwame Onwuachi in the dining room of his celebrated Washington, D.C. ![]()
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