If I had known your name was Tremayne before the interview, I wouldn’t have hired you because I don’t think a black person can handle the job. What would you do if you were a young cook trying to make a place in the industry you love and then be confronted with yet another not so subtle example of the systemic racism you’ve known all your life.

The characters may change but the story is the same. Far too often a young cook of color is inspired to learn and be great at what he loves because he would occasionally see people who looked like him cooking great food on TV with his idol Julia Child and think…”I can do that!!” But on the way there he must swallow the hurtful words hurled, sometimes with ignorance but mostly with intent, that are meant to keep him in “his place” Tre Donte Hardy’s love of cuisine, passed down to him from his mother and grandmother who nurtured Tre with the church and their food.  

Tre’s story is much more than that though. His account includes working with some great mentors and  many of the talented Chefs and cooks in the Twin Cities.

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Music;

Busted – John Deley