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Crave Kitchen: a story in Photos

BY BETT KINYATTI To comprehend the unusualness of Crave Kitchen, you must first comprehend the unusualness of the man who created the Kitchen itself. Chef Tom. I had the honour of sitting with Chef Tom for a chat back in March. And it really was an honour. Because Chef Tom

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Tuesday

BY BETT KINYATTI Nostalgia is a feeling Nyama Mama has turned into something you can hold in your hands. They’ve turned it into an

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Chef Les: “Food is better than an orgasm”

Kitchen Confidential: a miniseries about Kenyan chefs in Kenyan kitchens #1. CHEF LESIAMON SEMPELE. EXECUTIVE CHEF AT NYAMA MAMA DELTA AS TOLD TO BETT KINYATTI I worked on a cruise ship for eight and half months. It was called Celebrity Solstice. 2,800 guests, 1,600 crew, 14 levels, 17 destinations. It

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Kitchen confidential

BY BETT KINYATTI 2.07 p.m. I’m in the back of the kitchen at Nyama Mama Delta, Westy. Chef Les – Lesiamon Sempele, executive chef here – walks up to me with the exhaustion of a surgeon who’s been in open heart surgery for 78 hours. Like something you’d see on

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Colours of rhythm

BY BETT KINYATTI What do you write about on a day like today? Or in a week like this, when the trees in our backyard have been shaken and felled again? Leaves scattered into the wind. Death in itself is a great tragedy. The greater tragedy is that

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