A headshot of Tunde Wey, he is wearing a burgundy beanie, a black shirt and has on clear glasses. He is holding up a fork, smiling, and looking slightly towards the left.

Season 2: Episode 05

Tunde Wey

Tunde Wey

JUNE 8, 2022

Maori chats with writer, artist, and chef Tunde Wey, known for his gastronomic projects that critically poke fun at and examine gentrification, economic inequality and the enduring neo-colonial politics of food today. Tunde shares how stepping out of family expectations of success is a full circle process, and discusses what it’s like being back home in Nigeria. They talk about how his understanding of Black Atlantic food culture has evolved from his time in Detroit and New Orleans, and how he still owes Maori a husband.
A headshot of Tunde Wey, he is wearing a burgundy beanie, a black shirt and has on clear glasses. He is holding up a fork, smiling, and looking slightly towards the left.

Tunde Wey is a Nigerian immigrant artist, chef, and writer working at the intersection of food and social politics. His work engages systems of exploitative power, particularly race, immigration, gentrification, and global capitalism, from the vantage point of the marginalized other. He uses food and dining spaces to confront and close the disparities these inequalities create.

 

Tunde’s work has been written about in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, and GQ. His own writing has been featured in the Boston Globe, Oxford American, CityLab, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a TIME Magazine 2019 Next Generation Leader and NYTimes 16 Black Chefs Changing Food in America 2019. Tunde is currently working on a book of essays slated for publish with MCD (a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

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