Chef's Table: Kwame Onwuachi

What is one word you would use to describe Kwame Onwauchi?

Match the cooking-specific vocabulary words to their definitions:

• a style of cooking characteristic of a particular country or region

• cuisine

• something used for its fragrance

• Halal

• prepared using Islamic traditions

• culinary

• the sharpness of a flavor, often associated with vinegar or citrus

• aromatics

• relating to a kitchen or to cookery

• acidity

Match each of the words below with their synonyms:

• enthusiastic

• raucous

• plentiful

• abundant

• flexible

• pliable

• contains

• exuberant

• noisy

• encapsulates

Match each word with its meaning:

• to foster growth

• cultivate

• to succeed despite difficulties

• assimilate

• to absorb and integrate

• discipline

• posessing self-control

• fabricating

• to manufacture or prepare

• prevail

Match each word with its meaning:

• one's background and/ or qualifications

• influx

• a flowing in

• pedigree

• unwavering and persistent

• relentless

• to imitate or replicate

• apex

• the highest point

• emulate

Match each word with its meaning:

• made vulnerable to danger or harm

• epicenter

• in a way that is genuine and true

• authentically

• causing a significant change or improvement

• transformational

• principles or priorities

• values

• the key point on the earth's surface

• compromised

Match each word with its meaning:

• to show a relationship between two things

• validation

• believing some deserve favored treatment

• correlates

• the act of confirming as significant

• elitist

Briefly describe how he became so successful:

What is the main realization you had from watching him tell his story?