This day where I celebrate my personal milestone of pursuing my culinary ambitions and the continuity of my family’s access to opportunity is on the eve of Juneteenth, at long last federally recognized. The legacy of Black culinary arts and entrepreneurship is what created the American food scene that I fell so deeply in love with, and I take forward with me on this journey a reverence for the contributions of those before and around me who make my own dreams achievable.

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