#Kwame Onwuachi

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lewis hamilton attends the met costume institute's spring 2025 exhibition press conference in new york - october 9, 2024 📷 zach hilty / shutterstock

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Kwame Onwuachi: The Visionary Chef Behind Sirius and Dogon

The Calm Chef Behind Sirius and Dogon As the clock struck the hour marking the grand opening of his new restaurant, Kwame Onwuachi exuded an air of tranquility that belied the excitement and tension typically associated with such an event. His latest venture, Sirius, features an intimate four-seat tasting counter nestled within the larger backdrop of another establishment, Dogon. Notably, Dogon…

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Kwame Onwuachi's Comfort Foods: Chicken Over Rice and Creole Shrimp

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Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir

By Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein.

Design by Stephanie Ross.

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Website linked here:

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New/old of Timmy from a few weeks ago dining at Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi (an Afro Caribbean-inspired restaurant in NYC). He’s also pictured with Giullian Gioiello and composer Nicholas Britell.

Thanks to IG: tchalametsheart for the find. Original IG credit to siria.alvarez

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Recent pic of Timmy in Ny at Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi

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books i read this year in vaguely chronological order

the verifiers - jane pek

the truth is - nonieqa ramos

tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow - gabrielle zevin

tomorrow will be different - sarah mcbride

i'm glad my mom died - jennette mccurdy

the first to die at the end - adam silvera

tell me i'm an artist - chelsea martin

sea of tranquility - emily st. john mandel

talking with my mouth full - gail simmons

yerba buena - nina lacour

the empress of salt and fortune - nghi vo

station eleven - emily st. john mandel

you made a fool of death with your beauty - akwaeke emezi

all systems red - martha wells

artificial condition - martha wells

our wives under the sea - julia armfield

we are okay - nina lacour

pageboy - elliot page

exit strategy - martha wells

fugitive telemetry - martha wells

xenocultivars: stories of queer growth - ed. isabela oliveira and jed sabin

love, loss, and what we ate - padma lakshmi

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe - benjamin alire sáenz

margaret and the mystery of the missing body - megan milks

the seep - chana porter

this is how you lose the time war - amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

crying in h mart - michelle zauner

less - andrew sean greer

gender queer - maia kobabe

autoboyography - christina lauren

artemis - andy weir

the glass hotel - emily st. john mandel

less is lost - andrew sean greer

cemetery boys - aiden thomas

the hate u give - angie thomas

how high we go in the dark - sequoia nagamatsu

how far the light reaches - sabrina imbler

the candy house - jennifer egan

notes from a young black chef - kwame onwuachi

trust exercise - susan choi

overdue: reckoning with the public library - amanda oliver

girl mans up - m-e girard

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BEAS my LOVE it's nice ask week time! hello hello <3

my ask for everyone is...what is a book you are looking forward to reading and a movie you are excited to watch in 2024? :) xoxo roop

HI ROOP MY LOVE

So my answer is was and will be The Pairing by Casey McQuiston, though I was lucky enough to get my hands on an ARC so I am sitting like a fat happy cat right now for that one. I will say though that I am really looking forward to reading a number of Chef Memoirs and Cooking books this year.

The not so short TBR list of my cooking books to read this year

Cooking in General

Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat

The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer

How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman

Tasting History by Max Miller

The Science of Cooking by Dr. Stuart Farrimond

The Flavor Bible by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page

Chef Memoirs

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey

Toast Nigel Slater

Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi

Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl

Yes Chef by Marcus Samuelsson

Heat by Bil Buford

Eat a Peach by David Chang (THE ONE THAT IS COMING OUT THIS YEAR ON THE LIST)

as for movies...

DUNE 2 MY BELOVED

Spiderman beyond the spiderverse

I am sure there will be more but those two are at the top of my list right now

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Started reading Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi and I’m really liking it so far. I like how he’s addressing how white the fine dining industry is and how he doesn’t believe in dimming his own light and “paying dues” he’s just ambitious bc it’s instilled in him by his upbringing to make his own opportunities even if he fails. I’m not too far in yet but I know he name drops racist white chefs later lol and he’s constantly talking about how his childhood was full of different flavours and cuisines merging together with Deep South African American cuisine from his maternal side and Nigerian cuisine from his paternal side and Caribbean influences from his Trinidadian step-grandpa. i like how he’s giving the history and explaining the similarities between West African food and our food. and each chapter seems to have a recipe related to them that he lists later for readers to use so it’s a memoir/cookbook too

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Black History Month: Biographies & Memoirs

Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi 

By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi (winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Award for Rising Star Chef of the Year) had opened - and closed - one 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 he’d been told he would never make it on television because his cooking wasn’t “Southern” enough. In this inspiring memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, he shares the remarkable story of his culinary coming-of-age.

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.

On the Other Side of Freedom by DeRay Mckesson

In August of 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability. These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in his first book, Mckesson lays out the intellectual, pragmatic political framework for a new liberation movement. Continuing a conversation about activism, resistance, and justice that embraces our nation's complex history, he dissects how deliberate oppression persists, how racial injustice strips our lives of promise, and how technology has added a new dimension to mass action and social change. He argues that our best efforts to combat injustice have been stunted by the belief that racism's wounds are history, and suggests that intellectual purity has curtailed optimistic realism. The book offers a new framework and language for understanding the nature of oppression. With it, we can begin charting a course to dismantle the obvious and subtle structures that limit freedom.

The Beautiful Ones by Prince 

Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of “Uptown” to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of “Paisley Park.” But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, one of the greatest pop stars of any era.

The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince - a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is the memoir Prince was writing before his tragic death, pages that bring us into his childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us through Prince’s early years as a musician, before his first album was released, via an evocative scrapbook of writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince’s evolution through candid images that go up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book’s fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain - the final stage in Prince’s self-creation, where he retells the autobiography of the first three parts as a heroic journey.

My Time Will Come by Ian Manuel

The United States is the only country in the world that sentences thirteen- and fourteen-year-old offenders, mostly youth of color, to life in prison without parole. In 1991, Ian Manuel, then fourteen, was sentenced to life without parole for a non-homicide crime. In a botched mugging attempt with some older boys, he shot a young white mother of two in the face. But as Bryan Stevenson, attorney and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has insisted, none of us should be judged by only the worst thing we have ever done.

Capturing the fullness of his humanity, here is Manuel's powerful testimony of growing up homeless in a neighborhood riddled with poverty, gang violence, and drug abuse - and of his efforts to rise above his circumstances, only to find himself, partly through his own actions, imprisoned for two-thirds of his life, eighteen years of which were spent in solitary confinement. Here is the story of how he endured the savagery of the United States prison system, and how his victim, an extraordinary woman, forgave him and bravely advocated for his freedom, which was achieved by an Equal Justice Initiative push to address the barbarism of our judicial system and bring about "just mercy." Full of unexpected twists and turns as it describes a struggle for redemption, My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art - in Ian Manuel's case, through his dedication to writing poetry.

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billions season 7 casting calls: january 16-31, 2023

'Billions’ Season 7 (posted January 11; expires February 4; shoot dates February TBD in NYC)

Production Description: Casting season seven of “Billions.”

Hip Restaurant Patrons (SAG-AFTRA COVERED): Background / Extra, 18-40. GWC is seeking people to portray Hip Restaurant Patrons on Billions. *Looking for people who are cool/eclectic, interesting hair, stylish clothing.* Tentative Dates: COVID Test: Friday 1/27, Work: Monday 1/30 in NYC. Email billions@gwcnyc.com with subject "Backstage Tatiana." Ethnicity: Black / African Descent, Latino / Hispanic. [Posted January 19]

Hip Restaurant Patrons (NON-SAG COVERED): Background / Extra, 18-40. GWC is seeking people to portray Hip Restaurant Patrons on Billions. *Looking for people who are cool/eclectic, interesting hair, stylish clothing.* Tentative Dates: COVID Test: Friday 1/27, Work: Monday 1/30 in NYC. Email billions@gwcnyc.com with subject "Backstage Tatiana." Ethnicity: Black / African Descent, Latino / Hispanic. [Posted January 19]

(not sure why they needed two separate listings for the union and non-union versions of a role when past listings for tech company employees and lawyer types have combined the two. the “tatiana” of the required subject line is probably the restaurant; tatiana by kwame onwuachi seems most likely, but it could also be tatiana grill.)

Billions Seeking Twins (posted January 20; shoots January 31 in upstate NY)

Production Description: #gwci is seeking TWINS to portray #extras on the Showtime series BILLIONS.

Rehearsal and Production Dates & Locations: Filming in Upstate NY [Hudson Valley area] on 1/31 *transportation provided upstate*

(turns out you can find some casting calls on instagram, and this one hasn’t been posted to backstage yet! doesn’t specify how many sets of twins are needed. is there a twin convention in upstate new york?)

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January 2023 Monthly Media

* = Rewatch/reread

Anime/Cartoons

Bob's Burgers 13.11

The Legend of Vox Machina 2.01-2.06

Books

Magic Stars by Ilona Andrews

Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

The Untold Story by Genevieve Cogman

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

Hexarchate Storiesby Yoon Ha Lee

Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy

Notes From a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi

An Archive of Brightness by Kelsey Socha

Sword Song by Rosemary Sutcliff

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

Manga/Comics

Yu-Gi-Oh 1-7 by Kazuki Takahashi

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun 11 by Izumi Tsubaki

Oglaf (ongoing webcomic)

Order of the Stick (ongoing webcomic)

Wilde Life (ongoing webcomic)

Movies

 Strange Worlds (2022)

Podcasts

Dungeons and Daddies

Not Another D&D Podcast

Theater/Concerts

Not Another D&D Podcast (Lincoln Theater)

TV Shows/Web Series

Abbott Elementary 2.11-2.13

Cook versus Con 2.01-2.10

Critical Role 3.44-3.46

Dimension 20: Neverafter 6-9

Ghosts CBS 2.11-2.12

Hell's Kitchen 21.10-21.13

Leverage: Redemption 2.10-2.12

Poirot 1.01-7.02

Video Games

80 Days

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In a strategic move to enhance its menswear offerings, Macy's has launched a new private label, "Mode of One." This initiative aims to fill the gaps identified through extensive market research pertained to contemporary male shoppers. Targeted primarily at men aged 25 to 40, Macy's seeks to adapt to a demographic that is observably more selective and price-conscious in today’s market. The "Mode of One" collection features a diverse range of styles, from relaxed suiting to casual streetwear, ensuring an inclusive option for various fashion preferences. Prices for items in this line will range from $25 to $160, making it accessible to a broader audience. According to Emily Erusha-Hilleque, Macy's Senior Vice President of private brand strategy, the new label is specifically designed for "modern contemporary guys," who desire to express their individuality through bold and unique styles. Macy's initiative aligns with a larger goal to revitalize its men's apparel segment, which has faced challenges in recent years. During an earnings call in August, Macy's CEO, Tony Spring, highlighted the need to address these weaknesses and noted that contemporary styles represent a significant opportunity for growth within their men's business. Macy's broader strategy involves expanding its private label sales from 15 percent in 2023 to 25 percent by 2025. As part of this endeavor, the company has begun phasing out older private labels that no longer resonate with today’s consumers. Traditional brands like Charter Club and Karen Scott have been dropped in favor of fresh lines such as sleepwear brand State of Day and the revamped kids' brand Epic Threads. Currently, Macy's boasts a portfolio of 26 private labels, with "Mode of One" being a timely addition. The launch of "Mode of One" not only focuses on trendy apparel but also incorporates a modern marketing approach. Learning from successful brands like Aimé Leon Dore, the campaign was styled by Ouigi Theodore, the founder of the well-known menswear label, Brooklyn Circus. The social-first marketing campaign features brand ambassadors from various sectors, including NBA players Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart, and even celebrated chef Kwame Onwuachi, showing Macy's commitment to tapping into influential cultural figures. Additionally, the brand has strategically reintroduced Nike into its lineup, as the sneaker giant shifts back towards traditional wholesale after a significant period focused on direct-to-consumer sales. This re-engagement reflects Macy's intention to cater to younger male consumers, further diversifying its product assortment. Despite the ambitious plans put forth by Macy’s, questions remain about the potential success of the "Mode of One" line in driving sales. Jeff Sward, co-founder of consultancy Merchandising Metrics, has voiced concerns regarding the brand’s narrative. He argues that while having an extensive and diverse product range is beneficial, a compelling brand story is crucial in today's market to distinguish itself from competitors. The message needs to resonate deeply with consumers similar to what is being accomplished by Macy's women’s line, "On 34th." This restructuring of Macy's private label business comes at a pivotal moment. With plans to close 150 stores by 2026 under the “A Bold New Chapter” initiative, the company is seeking resilience amid challenging economic conditions. Erusha-Hilleque, who previously played a significant role in the success of Target’s private label brands, emphasized the importance of creating brands that are not only customer-centric but also reflect the evolving values and expectations of the target demographic. In conclusion, Macy's "Mode of One" label represents a calculated effort to cater to the contemporary menswear shopper amidst shifting consumer behaviors and market dynamics. If successful, this initiative could not only bolster their men's apparel division but also set a precedent for future growth in the private label sector.

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I learned yesterday was #internationalchefsday late after I'd already posted. So let's do a belated salute to some of the culinary wizards I've been privileged to photograph.

1) Kwame Onwuachi

2) Samin Nosrat

3) Jean-Georges

4) april Bloomfield

5) Jamie Bissonnette

6) Alton Brown

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Bronx Children's Museum Summer Under the Stars Gala Honors Distinguished New Yorkers

September 7th at The Lighthouse, Pier 61, Chelsea Piers, New York City On September 7, 2023, Bronx Children’s Museum will host its 2023 Summer Under The Stars Gala at The Lighthouse, Pier 61, Chelsea Piers, New York City from 6pm to 10pm.  This year’s honorees are chef Kwame Onwuachi, artist Saya Woolfalk and news anchor Ruschell Boone. Event Co-Chairs are Sunny Hostin and Sonia Manzano.  The…