"Kwame Onwuachi's story shines a light on food and culture not just in American restaurants or African American communities but around the world." -Questlove

By the time he was twenty.
Growing up in the Bronx, as a boy Onwuachi was sent to rural Nigeria by his mother to "learn respect." However, the hard.
Onwuachi's 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 dreams-even when they don't turn out as you expected-Notes from a Young Black Chef is one man's pursuit of his passions, despite the odds.
"This is an astonishing and open." -José Andrés