Notes From A Young Black Chef
A Memoir
Book - 2021 | Young adult edition, First edition.
"This inspiring memoir chronicles Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 phenom Kwame Onwuachi's incredible--and odds-defying--rise to fame in the food world after a tough childhood in the Bronx and Nigeria."-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
New York :, Delacorte Press,, [2021]
Edition:
Young adult edition, First edition.
ISBN:
9780593176009
9780593176016
9780593176016
Characteristics:
237 pages ; 22 cm
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Contents:
Standing on stories
Egusi stew
Dominoes
Ancestors
The block
Moneymaking
Gulf state
Finding my craft
CIA man
Ignited
Breakdowns and breakthroughs
From old guard to start-up
Welcome to reality
The jewel
Unraveling
The lesson.
Egusi stew
Dominoes
Ancestors
The block
Moneymaking
Gulf state
Finding my craft
CIA man
Ignited
Breakdowns and breakthroughs
From old guard to start-up
Welcome to reality
The jewel
Unraveling
The lesson.
Summary:
"This inspiring memoir chronicles Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 phenom Kwame Onwuachi's incredible--and odds-defying--rise to fame in the food world after a tough childhood in the Bronx and Nigeria."-- Provided by publisher.


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Add a CommentThe story of Kwame Onwuachi's life starts out as a cliche: poor kid from the bad, dangerous Bronx with an abusive father, and a mother who struggled to keep the family together and to give him every advantage she could. When at a young age Kwame got mixed up with the wrong crowd and his rebellion became more than his mother could handle, she sent him to Africa to stay with his grandfather and learn some respect. After two years he was back in the Bronx, hustling drugs, seemingly fated to go down a predestined path. But Kwame was a fighter: he wanted more. The warmth and safety of the kitchen had always inspired him, and eventually he found his way to the Culinary Institute of America, working his way up through racial prejudice and other setbacks, working to become a highly skilled, creative gourmet chef. An inspiring, fascinating story.