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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'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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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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Wrapping up 2024 with some of the images I've been honored to have win awards or be selected for gallery shows this past year.

1) my portrait of Natalie Turturro Mettouchi for BUArts was selected for the 2024 Communication Arts Photo Annual. It also won Bronze in the Editorial Portrait category of the PX3 Paris Photo Prize and was an Editor's Pick in the 2024 LensCulture Portrait Awards.

2) our Handmaid from Wife During Quarantine won 2nd prize in the Conceptual category of the 2024 APA Awards. It was also one of 45 images selected from 2600 entries for the 2024 International Juried Exhibition of the Center for Photographic Art curated by Elizabeth Avedon.

3,4,5,6) my Dobbs1 image as well as my portraits of dance icon Twyla Tharp and National Book Award winner Colum McCann were chosen by juror Michael Foley of Foley Gallery and Leica Gallery for the 3rd Annual APA-NY Juried Exhibition at Soho Photo Gallery. And our Spring image from Wife During Quarantine was a Board Choice for the show.

7,8) our Chair and Braid images from Wife During Quarantine were chosen for the APA-LA Off the Clock competition and exhibition recognizing personal work by curator George Kocis, Director and Partner at Staley-Wise Gallery.

9,10) my portraits of voice actor Gail Shalan for BU and celebrity chef Kwame Onwuachi for WaPo won Bronzes in the Editorial Portrait category of the PX3 Paris Photo prize.

Thanks to all the curators, jurors, directors, editors, assistants and wonderful subjects who made these images possible. And of course to the lovely redhead. Happy new year all!

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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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Dōgon in DC

designed by Preeti Sriratana of Modellus Novus for Chef Kwame Onwuachi

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Cyn Santana Reveals The Little Boy's Father: Kwame Onwuachi

rooms, Before Santana the identity of her boo and her baby’s father has been revealed: Chef Kwame Onwuachi. UPDATE: Issa Bae Watch?! Bambi Stirs Reactions After Posting Sweet Photo With Mystery Man Cyn Santana Reveals The Identity Of Her Baby’s Father Kwame Onwuachi Earlier this week, Santana took to Instagram to share a post in celebration of her one-month-old baby’s birthday. The post featured…

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Cyn Santana reveals the father of the youngest child: Kwame Onwuachi

bedrooms, Before Santana revealed the identity of her boo and the father of her youngest child: the cook Kwame Onwuachi. RELATED: Issa Bae Watch?! Bambi has sparked backlash after posting a cozy photo with a mystery man Cyn Santana has revealed the identity of the father of her youngest child as Kwame Onwuachi Earlier this week, Santana took to Instagram to share a the message to celebrate his…

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Cyn Santana reveals the father of the youngest child: Kwame Onwuachi

bedrooms, Before Santana revealed the identity of her boo and the father of her youngest child: the cook Kwame Onwuachi. RELATED: Issa Bae Watch?! Bambi has sparked backlash after posting a cozy photo with a mystery man Cyn Santana has revealed the identity of the father of her youngest child as Kwame Onwuachi Earlier this week, Santana took to Instagram to share a the message to celebrate his…

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Cyn Santana reveals the father of the youngest child: Kwame Onwuachi

bedrooms, Before Santana revealed the identity of her boo and the father of her youngest child: the cook Kwame Onwuachi. RELATED: Issa Bae Watch?! Bambi has sparked backlash after posting a cozy photo with a mystery man Cyn Santana has revealed the identity of the father of her youngest child as Kwame Onwuachi Earlier this week, Santana took to Instagram to share a the message to celebrate his…