Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen

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Part cookbook. Part manifesto. Created with big Bronx energy,Black Power Kitchen combines 75 mostly plant-based, layered-with-flavour recipes with immersive storytelling, diverse voices, and striking images and photographs that celebrate Black food and Black culture, and inspire larger conversations about race, history, food inequality, and how eating well can be a pathway to personal freedom and self-empowerment.

Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen is the first book from the Bronx-based culinary collective, and it does for the cookbook what Ghetto Gastro has been doing for the food world in general disrupt, expand, reinvent, and stamp it with their unique point of view. Ghetto Gastro sits at the intersection of food, music, fashion, visual arts, and social activism. Theyve partnered with Nike and Beats by Dre, designed cookware sold through Williams-Sonoma and Target, and won a Future of Gastronomy award from the Worlds 50 Best.

Now they bring their multidisciplinary approach to a cookbook, with nourishing recipes that are layered with waves of crunch, heat, flavour, and umami. They are born of the authors cultural heritage and travels from riffs on family dishes like Strong Back Stew and memories of Uptown with Red Velvet Cake to neighbourhood icons like Triboro Tres Leches and Chopped Stease (their take on the classic bodega chopped cheese) to recipes redolent of the African diaspora like Banana Leaf Fish and King Jaffe Jollof. All made with a sense of swag.

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My guys have always represented our hood with their fire meals. Shouts to Ghetto Gastro, my actual Bronx neighbors, for writing a book that lets the rest of yall know the real foods, lifestyles, and people that make our borough the best ofallthe boroughs. AH AH AH BX ALL DAY.
DESUS NICE

Challenging assumptions and subversive enlightenment are foundational to Ghetto Gastros movement.Black Power Kitchenis a vibrant expression of creative brilliance, imagination, and the kind of cultural fluency that can be garnered only from participation, not observation.
STEPHEN SATTERFIELD

Black Power Kitchenis cookbook as manifesto, a look at the future of food through a perspective rarely given the platform it deserves. But dont be mistaken: its also a fantastic culinary resource. The recipes are so delicious that I didn't even realize many of them were vegetarian or vegan. I encourage everyone to dive deep, devour, enjoy, and learn from this book.
DAVID CHANG

Black Power Kitchenis an awakening of what Black food was, is, and can become whileshowcasing the pure joy and creativity Black folks have to offer.Amazing!
MASHAMA BAILEY

Ghetto Gastro is a part of a movement redirecting the contemporary kitchen, tearing down walls, and breaking boundaries. Their book introduces us to a cuisine steeped in flavor; deep with power, pride, and identity; rich in history; and endowed with the power to unite people around the table.
MASSIMO BOTURA

Jon, Pierre, and Lester understand that change happens through conversation, and the best way to get people talking is through good food. All the better when the plate is also nourishing, sustainable, and accessible. I admire that the recipes in this collection yield dishes that are both beautiful and subversive, encouraging people to think beyond the assemblage of ingredients that make a meal. Cooking from this book makes me feel inspired and motivated to keep learning.
DANIEL HUMM

Ghetto Gastro gives us incredible, unique recipes and an equal amount of powerful perspective on food philosophies. Homies are killing the game.
TONY HAWK

Black Power Kitchenis full of such compelling truths and it brings to light the real importance of food in our culture.
DOMINIQUE CRENN

The Ghetto Gastro boys from the Bronx have really interrupted the food game. Theyre like a band, where each one is doing something different, and Im inspired to see them.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
My guys have always represented our hood with their fire meals. Shouts to Ghetto Gastro, my actual Bronx neighbors, for writing a book that lets the rest of yall know the real foods, lifestyles, and people that make our borough the best ofallthe boroughs. AH AH AH BX ALL DAY.
DESUS NICE

Challenging assumptions and subversive enlightenment are foundational to Ghetto Gastros movement.Black Power Kitchenis a vibrant expression of creative brilliance, imagination, and the kind of cultural fluency that can be garnered only from participation, not observation.
STEPHEN SATTERFIELD

Black Power Kitchenis cookbook as manifesto, a look at the future of food through a perspective rarely given the platform it deserves. But dont be mistaken: its also a fantastic culinary resource. The recipes are so delicious that I didn't even realize many of them were vegetarian or vegan. I encourage everyone to dive deep, devour, enjoy, and learn from this book.
DAVID CHANG

Black Power Kitchenis an awakening of what Black food was, is, and can become whileshowcasing the pure joy and creativity Black folks have to offer.Amazing!
MASHAMA BAILEY

Ghetto Gastro is a part of a movement redirecting the contemporary kitchen, tearing down walls, and breaking boundaries. Their book introduces us to a cuisine steeped in flavor; deep with power, pride, and identity; rich in history; and endowed with the power to unite people around the table.
MASSIMO BOTTURA

Jon, Pierre, and Lester understand that change happens through conversation, and the best way to get people talking is through good food. All the better when the plate is also nourishing, sustainable, and accessible. I admire that the recipes in this collection yield dishes that are both beautiful and subversive, encouraging people to think beyond the assemblage of ingredients that make a meal. Cooking from this book makes me feel inspired and motivated to keep learning.
DANIEL HUMM

Ghetto Gastro gives us incredible, unique recipes and an equal amount of powerful perspective on food philosophies. Homies are killing the game.
TONY HAWK

Black Power Kitchenis full of such compelling truths and it brings to light the real importance of food in our culture.
DOMINIQUE CRENN

The Ghetto Gastro boys from the Bronx have really interrupted the food game. Theyre like a band, where each one is doing something different, and Im inspired to see them.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Ghetto Gastro has their finger on the cultural pulse, and not just on the cutting edge of cuisine, aesthetics, fashion, and lifestyle. In their debut book, they face the issues confronting their community head-on, and tackle the inequalities of the manufactured food wasteland of America with unvarnished honesty.
DAVID GELB

My guys have always represented our hood with their fire meals. Shouts to Ghetto Gastro, my actual Bronx neighbors, for writing a book that lets the rest of yall know the real foods, lifestyles, and people that make our borough the best ofallthe boroughs. AH AH AH BX ALL DAY.
DESUS NICE

Challenging assumptions and subversive enlightenment are foundational to Ghetto Gastros movement.Black Power Kitchenis a vibrant expression of creative brilliance, imagination, and the kind of cultural fluency that can be garnered only from participation, not observation.
STEPHEN SATTERFIELD

Black Power Kitchenis cookbook as manifesto, a look at the future of food through a perspective rarely given the platform it deserves. But dont be mistaken: its also a fantastic culinary resource. The recipes are so delicious that I didn't even realize many of them were vegetarian or vegan. I encourage everyone to dive deep, devour, enjoy, and learn from this book.
DAVID CHANG

The Bronx is the world and Ghetto Gastro is our higher authority.Black Power Kitchenis a first-class culinary journey full of the beauty of life. These are the stories and recipes we need.
MATTY MATHESON

Black Power Kitchenis an awakening of what Black food was, is, and can become whileshowcasing the pure joy and creativity Black folks have to offer.Amazing!
MASHAMA BAILEY

Ghetto Gastro is a part of a movement redirecting the contemporary kitchen, tearing down walls, and breaking boundaries. Their book introduces us to a cuisine steeped in flavor; deep with power, pride, and identity; rich in history; and endowed with the power to unite people around the table.
MASSIMO BOTTURA

Jon, Pierre, and Lester understand that change happens through conversation, and the best way to get people talking is through good food. All the better when the plate is also nourishing, sustainable, and accessible. I admire that the recipes in this collection yield dishes that are both beautiful and subversive, encouraging people to think beyond the assemblage of ingredients that make a meal. Cooking from this book makes me feel inspired and motivated to keep learning.
DANIEL HUMM

Ghetto Gastro gives us incredible, unique recipes and an equal amount of powerful perspective on food philosophies. Homies are killing the game.
TONY HAWK

Black Power Kitchenis full of such compelling truths and it brings to light the real importance of food in our culture.
DOMINIQUE CRENN

The Ghetto Gastro boys from the Bronx have really interrupted the food game. Theyre like a band, where each one is doing something different, and Im inspired to see them.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Ghetto Gastro has their finger on the cultural pulse, and not just on the cutting edge of cuisine, aesthetics, fashion, and lifestyle. In their debut book, they face the issues confronting their community head-on, and tackle the inequalities of the manufactured food wasteland of America with unvarnished honesty.
DAVID GELB

Black Power Kitchenis as much a cooking manual as it is a manifesto of Ghetto Gastros decade-long mission: Seeing eating as simultaneously a form of survival and a source of luxury,Black Power Kitchenframes food as a form of love, but also a weapon one that has long been wielded against communities like Ghetto Gastros in the Bronx.
Eater

Described asThe Joy of Cookingmeets the Bible,Black Power Kitchenis like nothing youve ever read before.
Financial Times

Featuring vibrant recipes, interviews, art, and photography, this is a compelling culinary manifesto about the nature of Black food. . . . Ghetto Gastro offers an awakening of what Black food was, is, and can become while demonstrating the sheer joy and creativity Black communities generate. With waves of crunch, heat, flavor, and umami, this Bronx culinary collective also inspires discussions about race, history, and long-standing food inequality.
Food Wine

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Author Bio

Ghetto Gastrois the Bronx-born culinary collective from Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker. The group has defined its own lane, merging food, fashion, music, art, and design. Claiming both the beauty and grit from the streets with the aspiration and aesthetics of the finer things, Ghetto Gastros interdisciplinary approach celebrates the Bronx as a driver of global culture. The crew masterfully blends influences from the African diaspora, global South ingredients, and the pulse of hip-hop to create offerings that address race, identity, and economic empowerment.

Osayi Endolyn is a James Beard Awardwinning writer, whose work explores food and identity. Shes been published in theNew York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Eater, Food & Wine, Cond Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure,and theOxford American. Shes a regular contributor to food-centred storytelling on various TV and audio platforms. Endolyn is the coauthor of the national bestsellerThe Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Foodwith Marcus Samuelsson.