{"id":1429,"date":"2018-08-05T23:36:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T23:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africagastronomique.com\/?page_id=1429"},"modified":"2018-08-05T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T23:44:24","slug":"samuel-kioko","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/africagastronomique.com\/en\/samuel-kioko\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Samuel KIOKO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My name is Samuel Kioko aged 28yrs a Kenyan born in Nairobi, Kenya. I live and work in Kenya and\nam the first born in a family of four children. Growing up my childhood dream was to be a pilot\nhowever fate had it for me to become a chef. My parents lost their jobs when I was at an age of\n15yrs these made me to lack some basic things in life and even a times I would miss my classes.\nImmediately after my high school I had to go out to look for something to do so that I can help my\nmum in caring the other siblings. In 2008, I managed to work at a juice company in Ruiru whereby\nwe could load and off load lorries and the little money I got I would help my mum to buy food and\npay school fee for my younger siblings. After a few months, I managed to apply as a steward in one\nof the best restaurant in Nairobi thus artcaffe not knowing that my journey of culinary will start from\nthere. After a month, I was called for an interview and I managed to prove myself. I secured the\nstewarding chance and started working immediately. As time passed by through God\u2019s grace one of\nthe staff resigned for greener pastures and we were given 2 days to apply for that position. to do so I\nnever had that gut but trust you me I tried my luck and went home to share the story with my\nparents for prayer purpose. Lucky enough I was chosen to replace him and I was given a one month\nprobation period. I worked tirelessly because I knew home was the worst place to stay and I needed\nto support my family.<\/p>\n

A few months passed and our directors came from Israel with a chef and this was my turning point\nshe was a lady by the name chef Avivit.She was cool and had food knowledge in her finger tips her\nvisit changed my life and made me view cooking as the best career. She was so charismatic that I\ncould work 12 hrs straight and that\u2019s when I ventured into the kitchen and decide to rise without\nturning back. I was lucky to get good chefs like chef Wamoto and chef Teddy who groomed me and\ngave me hope. One night I prepared a meal for a certain guest and the guest was opening a\nrestaurant In Mombasa and he was so happy and he requested the waitress to call me to shake his\nhand when I went I thought It was maybe a complain instead he was grateful and gave me his\nbusiness card when I called in the morning he told me to meet him we talk about something, that\nmeeting was to offer me a job opportunity in his upcoming restaurant. So, I resigned and went to\nwork with him for a period of 3 yrs. Doors opened and I got another place thus in Nairobi where am\nworking until now and continuing to grow day by day.\nAs a young chef having had the experience of working with different ingredients from different parts\nof Kenya, I must say the African gastronomy has the potential of being appreciated across the world\nthus if we as chefs go that extra mile of having practical\u2019s, seminars and taking it seriously. In short,\nwe should desire our cuisine to be appreciated more.\nToday we visit institutions that offer catering courses and talk to the students we try to nurture\nthem and answer any question that they need to ask about culinary. When I spend time with\nstudents in school I usually tell them the importance of our African cuisine and it\u2019s uniqueness.\nFood plays a key role in our economy, until we start exporting food to other parts of the world\nnothing can be done in the fight against poverty in our continent. African food is our lively hood and\nwe must protect it and market it to the rest of the world.\nAfrican gastronomy has not been popular because the food has been perceived as having too much\noil, carbohydrates and not enough proteins. But we can popularise it by making our beloved African\ndishes accessible to people around the world and also by creating a demand for African catering by\nusing African ingredients and produce by adapting the recipes to correspond to other international\ncuisines and also offer variety of taste.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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