In October 1971, the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the communist People’s Republic of China and to expel the Republic of China, aka Taiwan. It was an idealogical defeat for the United States, one that greatly frustrated pro-Taiwan, anti-UN California governor Ronald Reagan. A day after the vote, he rang up President Richard […]
In His Memoir, Chef Kwame Onwuachi Accuses Chef Chris Flint of Racially Insensitive Behavior
Washington D.C.-based chef Kwame Onwauchi’s new memoir, Notes From a Young Black Chef, details his rise in the world of fine dining–including recalling insensitive and inappropriate comments he endured while working in elite kitchens. Among the incidents he recounts were his run-ins with chef Chris Flint, most recently of NoMad Los Angeles, when Onwauchi was working for […]