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092    BIO|bONWUACHI 
100 1  Onwuachi, Kwame,|eauthor. 
245 10 Notes from a young Black chef :|ba memoir /|cKwame 
       Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2019. 
300    271 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi 
       had openedand closedone 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 hed been told he would 
       never make it on television because his cooking wasnt 
       zSoutherny 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 zlearn respect.y 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. 
       Onwuachis 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 dreamseven when they dont 
       turn out as you expectedNotes from a Young Black Chef is 
       one mans pursuit of his passions, despite the odds. 
600 10 Onwuachi, Kwame. 
650  0 African American cooking|vBiography. 
650  0 Cooking, American|vBiography. 
700 1  Stein, Joshua David,|eauthor.