To Open His Buzzy New Restaurant, This Chef (and Model) Went Back to His Roots

“Food is always going to be there to heal us. Food is always going to be there to bring us together.” Find out why chef Roze Traore is part of TIME's newest class of Next Generation Leaders

, located in the West African country, and in our conversation about the difficulties of opening his restaurant abroad.

“Just because I’m from Ivory Coast or my parents are … doesn’t mean that it’s not a culture shock for me,” Traore, 32, says. “There were certain ingredients that I thought I would have the luxury of having any day, anytime when I create a menu in the States.” That process proved more difficult in Ivory Coast, but with new ingredients came new opportunities to innovate.Gioncarlo Valentine—The New York Times/Reduxto his ­parents’ native culinary culture.

Traore, who is also a model, stumbled into his cooking career as a teen who was seeking a form of connection. “Food is always going to be there to heal us. Food is always going to be there to bring us together,” he says. He studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Portland, Ore., and rocketed to early fame working at

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