Yewande Komolafe

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So there's a book that I referenced when I was starting my cookbook process by Yewande Komolafe.

She writes for The New York Times, and she had published her cookbook just before I started the process for publishing my cookbook, and what I loved about the way she organized her book was that it was ...

There was a lot of, like, the food processing part, and then the next section is literally food is ready, and it's just a bunch of different complete dishes, you know, s- um, dishes that people share with each other, the soups and staple food combination, and I just loved that because it had fewer categories.

I'm Kaya Findlay in for Anita Rao.

Yewande Komolafe has spent much of her life as a cook.

She's written recipes for publications like Bon Appétit, authored her own cookbook, and started her own recipe consulting company.

And along the way, she's learned to take things slow, a result of having sickle cell disease, which made her get tired and sick easily.

in this new kitchen? But, you know, I think that it's freeing to imagine possibly building an accessible kitchen and what that would look like.

And I mean, right now as the kitchen is, the, the house is also like on one level, so I can access my kids' rooms, I can go into the office, I can go into the closet, and it just already feels so much more accessible than what we had before, and I'm grateful for that.

Yewande Komolafe, thank you so much for being here.

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