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A serendipitous encounter with some New Orleanians brought Chef Serigne Mbaye to the Crescent City. Serigne was born in the United States, but raised and educated largely in Senegal. A love for cooking led him to New England Culinary Institute where he graduated at the top of his class in 2016. Though he started as a line cook, he rose to the level of sous chef at Commander's Palace and was the sous chef at Café Adelaide before its closing. He left New Orleans to hone his skills at Atelier Crenn, a 3-Michelin Star restaurant in San Francisco, and at L’Atelier Joel Robuchon, a 2-Michelin Star restaurant in New York. In 2018 he was awarded the Paul McIlhenny Culinary Scholarship at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, where he held regular pop-up dinners exploring the connections between the foods of Louisiana and Senegal. Serigne has evolved his pop up series into Dakar Nola, a modern Senegalese pop up restaurant. With a focus on highlighting the bounty of local ingredients Serigne has had the pleasure of collaborating with farmers and chefs throughout Southeast Louisiana. Serigne Mbaye is the co-owner and Chef of Dakar Nola in New Orleans, Louisiana. Chef Serigne Mbaye was voted 2021 Nola Eater Chef of the Year and was honored as a finalist in the 2022 & 2023 James Beard Foundation Award in the Emerging Chef category. This episode of Culture & Flavor Zella and Chef Serigne Mbaye talk about his journey to opening Dakar Nola and how he remains humble and focused in a chef celebrity culture.

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Pressure is inescapable. Especially in the kitchen. It breaks down our beans, keeps our spritzes spritzy, and extracts our espresso. Pressure can also break down our spirits, and kitchens have a reputation for being exceptionally stressful scenes. This week we’re investigating pressure in a variety of contexts, from ubiquitous appliances to non-indigenous species. 

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Dominique Crenn is a world-famous French chef, restaurateur, and co-owner of Atelier Crenn in San Francisco, which was named to the World’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2019. She’s also the first and only female chef in America to attain three Michelin stars and was awarded “Best Chef in the West” in 2018 by The James Beard Foundation. In January of 2020, she launched VitaBowl with the mission of universalizing access to wholesome, plant-based meals in an effort to cultivate resilient communities.

In this episode, we had a chance to chat with Dominique and learn about her adventurous childhood growing up in Paris, how her relationship with food has evolved throughout the years, her incredible career as a chef and why she’s not the biggest fan of culinary school, the early challenges she faced opening her first restaurant Atelier Crenn in 2011, her thoughts on the future of hospitality and food, and much more.

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“I’m an immigrant, a dancer, and a dreamer,” says Dominique Crenn, the world-renowned chef behind Atelier Crenn in San Francisco and author of the brand new memoir, Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters. Dominique shares her journey from scrappy tomboy to holder of three Michelin stars, to her breast cancer diagnosis last year and the love story that helped her through it. Dominique also talks about the current state of her restaurant group and her thoughts and concerns for the industry she loves so much. 

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Also, Aarthi Sampath, a chef at the Rainbow Room in New York City, shares why she thinks Chef Melba Wilson of Melba’s in Harlem is the Bombe!

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"That love, that passion, that authenticity you have within yourself always connects with others." Those are wise words from Dominique Crenn, chef/owner of San Francisco's Atelier Crenn and author of a new book, Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters. Known as one of the greatest chefs in the world, Crenn's gift is connecting with all humanity through her poetic cooking. It is her philosophy, not technique that brought her to the top. And it's a philosophy that's necessary at this moment of discord, mistrust, and also profound change and opportunity. Listen in to learn what inspired Crenn's pursuit of freedom over and above all else.

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This week, Liam brings an exclusive Foodie Chap chat to Salesforce Tower with Chef Dominique Crenn, who is on a "WAKE UP" mission and is inspiring people around the world to partake. | Each week, the KCBS Radio Foodie Chap, Liam Mayclem introduces us to the culinary stars behind the food & wine loved by so many in the Bay Area...

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In this special episode of Snacky Tunes we’re in the Caribbean at the 11th annual Cayman Cookout at the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman. Our guest is the indomitable, legendary, inspiring three-Michelin-star chef, Dominique Crenn. Dominique grew up in France, but blazed her trail in San Francisco with her acclaimed restaurants Atelier Crenn and Petit Crenn. We went all the way back to ST episode #26 for one of our most memorable in-studio performances. It was January 2010, and Queens indie rock quintet Freelance Whales played an all-acoustic set for us, opening the show with their hit song, “Generator 1st Floor.”

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