Top Chef Star Nyesha Arrington Shares Her Favorite Home-Cooked Meal: "It Hugs the Soul"

"I think for me, coming up, it was really difficult a lot of times being the only Black female in these very Eurocentric kitchens," she told POPSUGAR. "It was a very difficult space for someone like me who has the chops, has the mental capacity, has the grit, perseverance to want to be the best, but damn well knowing there's a glass ceiling over my head. It became very frustrating." Fast forward to the current moment, and the chef didn't just want to pay "lip service" to the social unrest, instead asking herself, "How do I do better?"