Pierre Thiam
8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 25, 2022 by Pierre Thiam · across every show →
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Aug 25, 2022 negative
African cuisine was absent from New York's 1990s culinary scene
“New York is calling itself the food capital of the world, but Africa is not in this world. I'm like, Hey, no, this is going to be my mission. I'm going to start finding inspiration from that cuisine and bringing it and that I never looked back.”
Aug 25, 2022 positive
Neglected indigenous African crops require active consumer branding to scale
“There's one thing I got right was I knew it needed to be branded. Those French, they branded their baguettes and that's how we're still eating it. They branded this broken rice to us and now I'm going to brand Fogneau and I'm going to make it Sexy”
Aug 25, 2022 positive
Aug 25, 2022 positive
Yolélé’s custom milling equipment reduced fonio processing waste by fifty percent
“Now we not only eliminated the waste because at this stage of Fogno Processing. We still had close to 50% of waste, which is crazy. And now with the machine, they design a machine that not only eliminates that waste, but it really is also processing at a much …”
Aug 25, 2022 positive
Fonio is a fast-maturing grain that requires minimal water to grow
“It's like one of the fastest maturing grain that requires very little water. It's rain fed, but it, you know, it just requires the first rain. And after that, even if there was no other rain coming or the rain is inconsistent, like it's the case right now with…”
Aug 25, 2022 neutral
Aug 25, 2022 negative
French colonialism shifted Senegal from rice farming to peanut monoculture
“We even had a rice culture in Senegal, but because of our connection with the French, we started importing broken rice from Vietnam so that Senegalese farmers would focus on growing peanuts that we need for our industries. Colonization was a business. So the F…”