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 me...
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Martin Espada Coca-Cola and Coco Frio On his first visit to Puerto Rico, island of family folklore, the fat boy wandered from table to t able with his mouth open. At every table, some great-aunt would steer him with cool spotted hands to a glass of Coca-Cola. One even sang to him, in all the English she could remember, a Coca-Cola jingle from the forties. He drank obediently, though he was bored with this potion, familiar from soda fountains in Brooklyn. Then, at a roadside stand off the beach, the fat boy opened his mouth to coco frío, a coconut chilled, then scalped by a machete so that a straw could inhale the clear milk. The boy tilted the green shell overhead and drooled coconut milk down his chin; suddenly, Puerto Rico was not Coca-Cola or Brooklyn, and neither was he. For years afterward, the boy marveled at an island where the people drank Coca-Cola and sang jingles from World War II in a language they did not speak, while so many coconuts in the trees sagge...
Was it tasty? I looked at the website and the most popular course was the Ginza standard course where they serve all-you-can-drink of craft beer and wine, 3 kinds of chef's special meat platter, risotto, and ajillo. The place looks very fancy and nice!
返信削除I enjoyed seeing your beautiful photos, Ryo, but you also needed to write a review of the restaurant and reflections on your experience there.
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