Knowledge Base › Adante Hart & Njathi Kabui - Pull Up A Chair: Food and Futures

Might you have a cookbook Chef Njathi?

Pull Up A Chair: Food and Futures

Adante Hart & Njathi Kabui - Pull Up A Chair: Food and Futures

Recorded

This event was on February 23, 2022

Join us for a conversation about food literacy, Black history, and Black food futures with Chef Njathi Kabui and Adante Hart, RD. This is the first of a series called Pull Up a Chair, featuring the Rouxbe team in discussion with various leaders in food-spaces on diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the broad landscape of food. During this conversation, you’ll hear about Chef Kabui’s personal odyssey through food, how he started a food literacy center in his home in Kenya, and how he engages in social and political discourse through what he calls Afro Futuristic Conscious Cuisine.

View Event Details

Question

Regina Heon

Might you have a cookbook Chef Njathi?

Answer

I have book. I have a book of contributed chapters to books. I'm working on my book. And because my biggest interest is not creating recipes, but more teaching about why people should learn enough should be literally enough to create their own recipes based on their own pallets. So this food I create is totally based on my own politics, you know, and I tell you this what I could and my teaching is that you know, you should understand I want to teach you how to understand your pallets and Tailor your food to those pallets that you do and most of keeping those pallets healthy and recognizing when you know, the differences between a healthy palette that is beneficial to you. Unhealthy palette. That's not a beneficial. So in a national, yes, there's a contributed a chapter and recipe in several books one being mindful eating for Beloved Community which are contributed a chapter 2, which was about one of my first published work and then yes mindful eating for the Beloved Community right there then you know, and there's a recipe for two of Chef Brian Terry's book. Which one is one of which is the book you have. I have a Blog very active block. You can read a lot interesting stories about my blog chef boy.com and my idea is some of those blogs will end up being in a book probably some time towards the end of this year. and but I also offer do offer classes for literacy classes, you know workshops you can take 10 classes and you are basic for literacy about how to get help or as one of a key items. On your portfolio. What we will have their Barbershop. They have they have their Barber they go to they have their dermatologists. They have everything. They have a possible mixed up our pedicure, you know manicure manicuries. We have all this but we don't have food as one of the items in our portfolio we have with Creek currency. We have stocks. We have all bonds all thing, but we don't have health as one of those. Oh items on our portfolio. So that's what what I do and that's what I write.

Adante Hart & Njathi Kabui

Chefs

*Njathi Kabui* is a Chef with a passion for Food Justice, a Leading expert in Food Literacy, a Medical Anthropologist and an Organic farmer. He is actively involved in promoting food literacy as a Public Speaker, Writer and a Social Commentator. Chef Kabui appears regularly on one of the most popular radio stations that broadcasts in his local language in Kenya as well as international media. Chef Kabui has literally worked on almost all common sectors of food from the farm, marketing, food app design, to the consumer’s plate through his advocacy and eclectic food workshops and dinners on farms, Non-profits, museums, academic institutions and corporate events. Chef Kabui has designed his own cuisine which he calls Afro Futuristic Conscious Cuisine as a more healthy option that deals with Climate Change, Health and Food Justice. He has promoted this cuisine in Africa, Europe, USA and in the UAE, at numerous educational institutions, corporate companies, nonprofits and embassies. Chef Kabui has set up a food literacy and sustainability center in Kenya which has a village branch and an urban branch for the purpose of promoting food literacy, demonstration farm and creation of content. The center has both local and international attractions and collaborations. Chef Kabui is ranked as the top chef in sustainability in Africa. Chef Kabui has presented at numerous conferences and panels such as SASS Conference in Milan Italy (2021), Kenyatta University, Kenya(2021), U.N Food Systems Summit (2021), Africa Week in Berlin (2020), SOAS Food Summit in London (2019), The Smithsonian (2018) in Washington D.C. He is also a notable Public Speaker at various gatherings such as BCAGlobal in New York (2020), the Males Place (2018), CFSA (2020) in North Carolina, Kenyatta University (2021), Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (2021), SASS International Conference in Milan Italy (2021) and Alliance of Leadership Fellows (2021) \. Chef Kabui believes that the best African food is in the future. *Adante Hart* serves as the Health Programs Manager, leveraging his experience in public health and nutrition to inform and optimize many of Rouxbe’s culinary and wellness initiatives. He is also a Registered Dietitian, nutrition educator, and speaker who strives to improve public health through advancing food sovereignty. He brings to the Rouxbe team a wealth of experience working in and around food, from academia to agriculture and farming, hospitals, restaurants, non-profits, and nearly everything else in between. Drawing from this wealth of experience working around food in various capacities, Adante regularly speaks and leads classes/interactive workshops that reside at the intersection of nutrition, foodways, and health. Adante holds a Master of Public Health from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor in Biology from The Johns Hopkins University. He also serves or has served in a formal capacity with Oldways Preservation Trust, the Southern Foodways Alliance, and the National Organization of Blacks in Nutrition and Dietetics (NOBIDAN). He currently resides in North Carolina, and spends his spare time exercising, gardening, and gaming.