Kwame's resume is incomparable as he has been named one of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs, Esquire Magazine's 2019 Chef of the Year, the TIME 100 Next 2019 List, and is a 30 Under 30 honoree by both Zagat and Forbes.
Kwame currently serves as Food & Wine's executive producer. In this recently-appointed role, Kwame collaborated on big brand moments and events including the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, CO and "The Family Reunion: Presented by Kwame Onwuachi" in Middleburg, VA.
Now available, a delicious collaboration between Chef Kwame and Orly Beauty, featuring an inspired new collection of Breatheable 1-step long wearing nail color for all.
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Raised in New York City, Nigeria, and Louisiana, Onwuachi was first exposed to cooking by his mother, in the family's modest Bronx apartment. After training at the Culinary Institute of America, Kwame opened five restaurants before the age of thirty; including the groundbreaking Afro-Caribbean restaurant, Kith/Kin, in Washington, D.C.
This critically acclaimed memoir is available now, and is being adapted into a feature film by A24.