- Hi, I'm Kwame Onwuachi
and this is Everything I Eat in a Day.
So the first thing I do when I wake up
is usually get a glass of water.
Usually have like a cup of water next to my bed stand.
I'll just drink that before I head downstairs
to the kitchen.
After I have my glass of water, I'll meditate.
I do some stretching
and then I do like 30 minutes of cardio on the treadmill.
Just getting my mind right, I play mediation music
and just spend some time with myself.
I'm not really a breakfast person.
If I am really hungry, it's normally leftovers.
I'll heat up some leftovers,
could be anything from like chicken wings
and pork fried rice.
It could be Mexican food,
but if I am gonna cook it's just like scrambled eggs
and bacon.
I'm a traditionalist when it comes to breakfast,
if I'm making it.
If I'm eating it, it's whatever in front of me.
So I am a coffee drinker and I drink it for fuel.
So I drink an espresso.
Normally it's a quadruple shot espresso.
I'll even pour a little bit of water
or oat milk in it just to cool it down
so I can drink it fast enough.
I think coffee is absolutely disgusting,
I don't like the taste of it at all,
so I'll dilute it with anything
just to chug it down really quickly.
There's no typical lunch for me.
It can be anything from sushi to a cheeseburger,
chicken breasts, and vegetables with some starch.
It's whatever I crave, really is what I eat.
I can be a big snacker,
but it's normally sour patch watermelon, pink starburst.
Only the pink flavor.
There's these things called power curls.
It's like these protein version of Cheetos almost.
And then there's these truffled almonds from Trader Joe's
that are amazing.
Typical dinner, could be anything.
Seared piece of steak.
It could be Ethiopian cuisine,
it can be, you know, oxtails from Jamaica.
I'm more of a craving type of person.
So there's no, there's no like regimen.
It's what I'm craving, that's what I have to eat.
I'm not really a desert person honestly.
It's just ice cream, if anything.
Just a scoop of ice cream.
Jeni's ice cream.
Jeni's is it for me, for ice cream.
It's just solid, it's just so creamy.
I love the bramble berry crisp.
They have this everything bagel ice cream flavor
that is surprisingly delicious.
I have like six flavors downstairs right now in my freezer
and I'll have a spoonful every night.
I don't like bitter flavors.
So frisee, radicchio,
broccolini,
coffee,
bitter melon.
I don't like bitter flavors at all
so I try to just stay away from them at all costs.
I gotta always have some sort of chili's,
some citrus, garlic, thyme,
those are the things I have to have at all times.
Whew that's a tough,
this is where the fighting happens.
My favorite food city gotta be New York City.
It has everything you need.
There's so many different restaurants.
You don't even have to go to the same restaurant again.
Whatever food you want, whatever flavor you going for,
there's something there for you in New York City.
My go to comfort meal is chicken wings
and pork fried rice from the Chinese shop.
It's timeless.
It just reminds me of home.
We have a lot of these Chinese takeout spots
in New York City.
I mean all the boroughs.
So it's something that if I'm feeling sad
or I'm feeling really happy,
that's the dish that I always have to have.
Well I can't talk about the food on Top Chef,
we know that.
Good try, good try.
But, I think just the diversity that was there
it was something I haven't seen before.
Having chefs that had concentrations
and Caribbean cuisines or African cuisines or Haitian.
I hope if that's a trend, we're trending up.
That's everything I eat in a day.
So be sure to check out my book,
Notes from a Young Black Chef.
It's just an adapted for a young adult version,
so now is an opportunity for everyone to read it.
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