137: JJ Johnson

We welcome one of our favorite chefs in the game, JJ Johnson, back to the program. JJ is the James Beard Award–winning chef behind the fast-casual restaurant Field Trip and a coauthor of the cookbook Between Harlem and Heaven. In this episode, we catch up about JJ’s time attending the Culinary Institute of America and what it was like being one of the few Black chefs in the program. Then we fast-forward to the present day and talk about JJ’s big ambition with food television and his growing empire of rice-focused restaurants. We love chatting with JJ whenever we can, and we hope you enjoy this conversation. More from JJ Johnson: Chef JJ Johnson Is Making Rice Cool Again [Nations Restaurant News] JJ Johnson’s Field Trip To Malliouhana [Forbes] JJ Johnson Is a Young Chef on the Rise, to a Hip-Hop Beat [New York Times] TASTE Podcast 62: JJ Johnson [TASTE] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices