Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi is the book I have chosen to read for the food seminar course this fall semester. Although now, he is an executive chef at this own restaurants, there were a lot of hurdles he confronted until he became the man he is today. Having a alcoholic father and a low-income family, he found a way to make easy money, selling drugs at his dormitory, in a sense a lucrative business allowing him to make over $3000 US per week. Little did I know about the culture of the chefs at culinary dining and the toxic workplace environment of chefs in the United States initially before reading this book. What I found out was the relationships between chefs are quite similar to those of the senpai-kouhai culture we have in Japan and Korea. The only answers you are allowed is "yes" or any kind of affirmation that you'll get the job done. Regardless of how much culinary experience chefs may have, if they ...
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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 me...
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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