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François Kwaku-Dongo, above, is the executive chef of the new J House restaurant - eleven14 Kitchen - but his journey to get there was a long one that began when Kwaku-Dongo was a little boy growing up in West Africa. Photo: Anne W. Semmes -
Chef François Kwaku-Dongo samples one his creations - hot chocalate dripped over homemade marshmallows - at the Chocolate Lab, one of the chef's passions, which is located at the J House, in Greenwich. Photo: Anne W. Semmes -
Chef François Kwaku-Dongo's Chocolate Lab showcases the process of making chocolate. "In the U. S. I learned how cocoa beans became chocolate," he says, "I fell in love with chocolate." Photo: Anne W. Semmes -
Pictured here are Chef François's father, left, and grandfather, a Baoulé chief born in 1889, in the old Ivory Coast, circa 1945. "It was almost like a plantation," says Chef François of his grandfather's farm , "The labor of my life as a young boy was to pick cocoa beans." Photo: Contributed Photo
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