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HIBT Lab! Yolélé: Pierre Thiam

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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I'm Not Going to School, I Am Cooking and I Love This

I was still very embarrassed, you know. You come to from a culture where cooking is really a women activity. So this cultural thing was stuck with me even though I was very interested. But I knew I was in New York and everyone in the kitchen wore men like me. It was fine. And I was loving what I was doing. She told my dad and he could feel the smile, but they were both amused. They were relieved parents who knew their son had found something that he enjoyed doing.

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