{"id":247,"date":"2018-11-28T00:13:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T00:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livsothebysrealtyca.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2021-08-25T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:53:47","slug":"a-chefs-journey-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livsothebysrealtyca.blog\/spu\/a-chefs-journey-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chef’s Journey Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Instagram, the chef Malcolm Livingston<\/a> is often seen in Japan, or else he\u2019s in the Bronx, Barbados, or at Art Basel in Miami. There he is on the Rachael Ray Show, or at Instagram HQ posing with his colleagues from Ghetto Gastro, the groundbreaking far-more-than-a-catering company that he co-founded in 2012.<\/p>\n

His photos of perfect sweet potato pies and chocolate-coconut cakes\u2014 all plant-based and simply but exquisitely decorated\u2014are usually crafted at the Andrew Freedman Home, a landmark building on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx where Ghetto Gastro rents a kitchen and maintains a community garden. The Bronx is Livingston\u2019s home turf, and the borough has remained his beacon during his peripatetic life as a renowned pastry chef.<\/p>\n

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Chef Malcom Livingston<\/p><\/div>\n

Chef Livingston, 31, his wife Meeka, who is a professional dancer, and their toddler daughter travel extensively, and he was calling RESIDE from just outside Tokyo. He and his wife were high-school sweethearts, and they were in Japan visiting her family. With appreciation of the international experience, \u201cI come back with a spark,\u201d he says. \u201c\u2018Cause when you’re out here, there’s just so much you can get inspired from\u2014the people, the culture, the food.\u201d<\/p>\n

BIG-NAME CLIENTS, PLUS A DEDICATION TO GIVING BACK<\/h4>\n

Livingston and his Ghetto Gastro partners Jon Gray, Lester Walker and Pierre Ser-rao are known for collaborations with brands and celebrities\u2014they created the menu for the Black Panther movie premiere, for one\u2014and they\u2019ve man-aged to embrace high art, street culture and pop thrills all at once. But their dedication to reinvesting in their Bronx community is paramount, partnering with food-justice organizations and neighborhood programs while taking on big-name clients.<\/p>\n

What Livingston and his colleagues in Ghetto Gastro are trying to do is present delicious, healthy food with a hypercre-ative global perspective and a deep focus on community and culture.<\/p>\n

EMBRACING CLEAN EATING<\/h4>\n

In 2014, Livingston took a detour to Copenhagen\u2014he\u2019d landed a gig working at the world\u2019s best restaurant, Noma, with its mad genius chef, Ren\u00e9 Redzepi. After grueling stints at Le Cirque, Per Se and WD-50 in New York, Copenhagen was a welcome shift, Livingston says, and his time there was transformative.<\/p>\n

However, while overseas he start-ed to suffer from health issues; an allergy specialist led him toward a diet that eliminates most meats, alcohol, sugars and white flour from his menu. Primarily a pescatarian these days, he\u2019s extra-motivated to make the most delicious plant-based foods he can. Especially as a pastry-oriented chef, \u201cIt\u2019s the question of why and how can we make something better,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust constantly, how can you challenge yourself? \u2026 I want people to have something and be like, \u2018Man, this is crazy. I want more of it, and I can’t believe this is healthy!\u2019\u201d< br\/> Now back in New York, he\u2019s dedicated to Ghetto Gastro: \u201cI really came back from Noma to do this and put my all into this,\u201d he says, but the culture shock was real. \u201cI miss Sundays in Denmark,\u201d he says. \u201cSunday’s a good day in Copenha-gen because of this idea they call hygge. It’s coziness\u2014and I never really under-stood what cozy was until I was there\u2026 You’re with your friends or your family. You have a good dinner, you sit down, people have fireplaces. It’s a real vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Delicious Creation<\/p><\/div>\n

SHARING THE BRONX WITH THE WORLD<\/h4>\n

Still, Livingston and his Ghetto Gastro crew know how to set a scene. He stresses that he and his partners aren\u2019t just chefs and businessmen, they are creatives, designers, artists, media makers, DJs, connectors and more.<\/p>\n

Livingston is an ice cream whiz, and a Ghetto Gastro ice cream line is in the works\u2014it\u2019s called 36 Brix, a reference not only to the Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s 36 Chambers record but to \u201cbrix,\u201d a food-science term for sugar levels.<\/p>\n

Brix also shortens to BX, back home to the Bronx once again. \u201cThat’s what we try to do,\u201d Livingston says. \u201cWe bring the Bronx to the world and the world to the Bronx.\u201d<\/p>\n

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