For my required reading, I chose Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi. This story is about ambition, identity, and perseverance in the culinary world, following Onwuachi’s journey to becoming a successful chef while highlighting the personal and cultural challenges he faced in his life. I felt that this book would be a good choice to represent my SSP project because it connects to my overall goal of building a life for myself that has purpose and that I can also enjoy, and I felt that this book is a good representation that a life skill like cooking can be an outlet for that.