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        Notes from a Young Black Chef is a non-fiction novel, or a autobiography of the protagonist himself, Kwame Onwuachi, which is the book I have chosen to read for the Food Seminar course. 

    I have always been intrigued in the culture of Nigeria thanks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, one of my favorite writers introducing me, giving an insight of the backgrounds of Nigerian-Americans from the book "Americanah" and the civil Biafran war from "Half of a Yellow Sun". 

    For I will restrain myself from providing spoilers, for this is a book I personally recommend to all my enthusiastic fans reading my blog, I will give you a brief insight of the author himself. 

    Kwame Onwuachi is an executive chef at his own restaurant Kith and Kin, who rose to fame from his victory in a competitive show "Top Chef". He is yet 30 but proves that his life has already been a series of struggle sufficing him to write his memoir. He grew up in Bronx, later told by his mother to travel to Nigeria where his family originally are from to learn respect to his background and the culture.  

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  1. jodias2022年2月3日 7:54

    I'm glad you chose a book that you were genuinely interested in and one that had never been selected by any student previously enrolled in the seminar. Kwame Onwuachi sounds like an amazing person and you got me interested in reading his memoir.

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