BNC Camari Mick Follow Your Roots Dinner

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In this video, Camari Mick, the winner of the 2024 Food & Wine Best New Chef Award, hosts a Follow Your Roots dinner at her NYC restaurant ‘The Musket Room’. With five other acclaimed chefs, she highlights African diaspora in the culinary world.

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00:00In celebration of Black History Month, 2024 Food & Wine Best New Chef Kamari Mick hosted a Folly Roots

00:05dinner at her restaurant, The Musket Room, in New York City, where five celebrated chefs each

00:09created a dish highlighting an ingredient that defines the African diaspora. My ingredient today

00:14is okra. I've decided to make okra stew. I think it's a good example of a dish that connects us

00:20from the States to West Africa, you know, be it gumbo, okra stew, or okra soup. It's a dish that

00:26speaks to all of us. The ingredient that was given to me was saltfish, so I decided to

00:33do Johnny Cakes with a little bit of jalapeno in there topped with the saltfish. I am working

00:39with blackout peas, which to me growing up, it was something we always ate to bring in

00:44the New Year, preparing them a way I don't really eat them growing up. It's a play on like a

00:48cassoulet, which is like a classic like French dish, but with some collard greens and some

00:53ham hock in there as well. My ingredient is pork, and I'm all about my Jamaican roots,

00:59my Jamaican heritage. Both my parents come from St. Elizabeth and West Milan, so I really

01:04want to put on for my culture. And with that, we're serving a jerk pork over a calabaza puree.

01:11My ingredient is sorrel, and its significance has traveled from all the way from Ghana to the Caribbean,

01:18where my heritage is Jamaican. Traditionally, we have it in teas, but today I incorporated it into

01:24a semifredo that is going to be sandwiched between layers of nutmeg meringue.

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