#tunde wey

[fatenumberfor]

Let this marinate in your spirit and braise long in your soul: The United States has an economy 6000% larger than Nigeria’s — the largest economy in Africa. There are many conclusions to draw, but the most important one also ironically unites most Black Africans and the West in their disagreement of this fact: Governance, no matter how competent, can never bridge this economic disparity. Conversely, there is no amount of incompetence that creates a 6000% disparity. The only way this happens is if the rules of the game necessitate a disparity. And if you believe that it is somehow possible that Nigeria is infinitely more corrupt and less capable than the United States, then you are a racist and a fool six thousand times over.

Tunde Wey, NIGERIA HAS DWINDLING REVENUES.

[9jablog]

Nigerian American celebrity chef Tunde Wey hosts the African Scramble in Lagos

Nigerian American celebrity chef Tunde Wey hosts the African Scramble in Lagos

Celebrity Tunde Wey at the African Scramble in Lagos Culinary guru Tunde Wey whets the appetites of Lagosians with his cooking and writing skills.Celebrated Nigerian American chef, Tunde Wey recently hosted the African Scramble in Lagos.Wey in conjunction with the AmericanSandwich Magazine came together in the most formidable alliance possible to create an unforgettable night of…

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[arcticdementor]

The Ta-Nehisi Coates Of Food

Nigerian-born chef Tunde Wey marinates his food in wokeness

A friend e-mailed the link to this GQ profile of Tunde Wey, a Nigeria-born New Orleans chef, described by my friend as “the Ta-Nehisi Coates of food.” Oh? Dour and militant? That sounds like fun.

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OK, now he’s getting personal. This woke jackass FROM NIGERIA — who was raised in privilege there (“He grew up in a comfortably middle-class Yoruba family; his grandfather had been second-in-command during the military junta that ruled the country from 1966 to 1979”) comes to America as an illegal immigrant (it’s in the story) and tells me, a white man from the rural South, that the greens, cornbread, and pork that I grew up eating, that all people, black and white, in my hometown ate, amounts to “appropriation of black Southern food without consequence.” He pretty clearly knows nothing about Southern food culture.

There is nothing that the woke don’t ruin. This guy must be totally insufferable. There’s a reason why most Americans want to “avoid” those “conversations”: nobody wants to be told they are bad people for enjoying their Mama’s cornbread while white.

[localareamom]

Why spend so much time going after potential allies when there are so many more egregious and obvious threats and enemies? “In critique, you have to be hyperbolic. In practice, you need to be nuanced. But one feeds the other. It's hyperbole that creates the space for the nuance,” he says. “And what is the role of the critic? To state the obvious? Or to point to the hidden and understated?” And who can say he isn't being strategic? The night after the Hot Chicken Shit event, I went by myself to a new restaurant in East Nashville. It was in every way a lovely example of today's modern, placeless, immaculately tasteful restaurant: the menu of ItaloCaliAsian New American dishes (made for sharing), the clever cocktail list, the open kitchen, the exposed ducts and unfinished walls and concrete floors that gave the extremely expensive look of a space whose contractor quit three days before finishing. It was all so nice. The very quintessence of nice. And I sat at the bar feeling a nagging disquiet, a dissatisfaction that I sensed would not go away no matter how many clam pizzas and fluke crudos and Manhattan variations I poured down my throat in an attempt to quell it. That was when I found myself cursing Tunde Wey.

Tunde Wey Profile: The Chef Who Charges Black and White Customers Different Prices - GQ

[diasporamessenger]

Wedding: Matchmaking dinners to pair immigrants with U.S. citizens

Wedding: Matchmaking dinners to pair immigrants with U.S. citizens

PITTSBURGH- A Nigerian chef-activist based in New Orleans — who gets people talking with projects like his “Blackness in America” series — is hosting Pittsburgh-based matchmaking dinners that pair immigrants with U.S. citizens for first dates.

The “Marriage Trumps All” dinner series will take place on Friday and Saturday, just before Valentine’s Day, when Tunde Weywill cook for eight to 10…

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[dreowyn]

Chef charges whites $18 more than blacks for same plate of food

Chef charges whites $18 more than blacks for same plate of food

Bet reports, March 19, 2018, that a Nigerian chef in New Orleans charges his white customers more than twice as much as blacks for a single lunch plate at his pop-up restaurant, Saartj, in the city’s the Roux Carre market. According to his website, each day chef Tunde Wey offers a single lunch plate with two pricing options: $12 for Black people A “suggested” price of $30 for white people. Wey…

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[foodtellsastory]

Dining in the Era of Kaepernick

Is dining the final frontier of American racism? This chef says yes.

Dining “is one of the few remaining social spaces premised on the tyranny of a soft-boiled racism....Modern dining reflects our ambivalence towards combatting racial prejudice, and reinforces racial hierarchy.”

[foodtellsastory]

Discomfort food: Using dinners to talk about race, violence and America

‘We’re prioritizing the perspectives of black people,’ says Nigerian chef Tunde Wey.