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

• aromatics

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

• Halal

• relating to a kitchen or to cookery

• cuisine

• something used for its fragrance

• acidity

• prepared using Islamic traditions

• culinary

Match each of the words below with their synonyms:

• flexible

• encapsulates

• contains

• raucous

• enthusiastic

• pliable

• plentiful

• abundant

• noisy

• exuberant

Match each word with its meaning:

• to absorb and integrate

• discipline

• to foster growth

• cultivate

• to manufacture or prepare

• assimilate

• to succeed despite difficulties

• prevail

• posessing self-control

• fabricating

Match each word with its meaning:

• the highest point

• influx

• a flowing in

• emulate

• to imitate or replicate

• relentless

• unwavering and persistent

• apex

• one's background and/ or qualifications

• pedigree

Match each word with its meaning:

• made vulnerable to danger or harm

• authentically

• in a way that is genuine and true

• epicenter

• causing a significant change or improvement

• transformational

• the key point on the earth's surface

• values

• principles or priorities

• compromised

Match each word with its meaning:

• to show a relationship between two things

• elitist

• believing some deserve favored treatment

• correlates

• the act of confirming as significant

• validation

Briefly describe how he became so successful:

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