Charity Morgan Reveals The Inspiration Behind Her Cookbook - Exclusive
Rachel Breakey By Gene Gerrard/Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 4:32 pm EST
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Charity Morgan can remember the first time she started cooking when she was five-years-old. “I started becoming the pest. I shadowed my mom, every single thing that she did [in the kitchen],” she told Mashed in an exclusive interview. Morgan’s mother was a superb cook and made the traditional dishes from her own upbringing in Puerto Rico. Morgan’s Creole father, on the other hand, didn’t cook , though his mother — her beloved grandma Duplechan — cooked Creole comfort food. Adding to this delicious fusion were the Mexican, Filipino, and Indian friends of Morgan’s mother who all prepared meals together and shared their own traditional recipes. “We always were eating all these different kinds of foods … you look at all these beautiful dishes and herbs and spices … and that’s kind of how I was raised, which is weird. I got that head start from my mother.”
Inspired by those formative figures, Morgan set out to make a career as a chef and attended the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena, California. She was one of a handful of women in a class of about 40 people. “[W]e all know that having a woman’s perspective in a certain environment can definitely change the attitude of things,” she affirmed. Although it was a challenging culinary training program, Morgan persevered and graduated and then worked several restaurant jobs in Los Angeles until realizing that the skills she learned from her mother and grandmother for creating multi-cultural dishes weren’t being utilized. So, she launched her own meal-prep service and began amassing the recipes she now cooks for her clients including footballers.
Charity Morgan Reveals The Inspiration Behind Her Cookbook - Exclusive
Rachel Breakey
By Gene Gerrard/Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 4:32 pm EST
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Charity Morgan can remember the first time she started cooking when she was five-years-old. “I started becoming the pest. I shadowed my mom, every single thing that she did [in the kitchen],” she told Mashed in an exclusive interview. Morgan’s mother was a superb cook and made the traditional dishes from her own upbringing in Puerto Rico. Morgan’s Creole father, on the other hand, didn’t cook , though his mother — her beloved grandma Duplechan — cooked Creole comfort food. Adding to this delicious fusion were the Mexican, Filipino, and Indian friends of Morgan’s mother who all prepared meals together and shared their own traditional recipes. “We always were eating all these different kinds of foods … you look at all these beautiful dishes and herbs and spices … and that’s kind of how I was raised, which is weird. I got that head start from my mother.”
Inspired by those formative figures, Morgan set out to make a career as a chef and attended the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena, California. She was one of a handful of women in a class of about 40 people. “[W]e all know that having a woman’s perspective in a certain environment can definitely change the attitude of things,” she affirmed. Although it was a challenging culinary training program, Morgan persevered and graduated and then worked several restaurant jobs in Los Angeles until realizing that the skills she learned from her mother and grandmother for creating multi-cultural dishes weren’t being utilized. So, she launched her own meal-prep service and began amassing the recipes she now cooks for her clients including footballers.
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Inspired by those formative figures, Morgan set out to make a career as a chef and attended the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena, California. She was one of a handful of women in a class of about 40 people. “[W]e all know that having a woman’s perspective in a certain environment can definitely change the attitude of things,” she affirmed. Although it was a challenging culinary training program, Morgan persevered and graduated and then worked several restaurant jobs in Los Angeles until realizing that the skills she learned from her mother and grandmother for creating multi-cultural dishes weren’t being utilized. So, she launched her own meal-prep service and began amassing the recipes she now cooks for her clients including footballers.
Charity Morgan’s dishes are inspired by all the cultural influences in her life
Kristin Casemore
There are recipes for everything Morgan made in “The Game Changers” included in the cookbook, but she’s also created and shared vegan versions of her family’s favorites, like Grandma Duplechan’s gumbo and jambalaya and her mother’s Puerto Rican dishes, such as pastelillo and arroz con gandules. There’s even a Creole-Cajun version of her grandma’s famous Caesar salad. The chef took all of the cultural and ethnic influences from her life and fused them into her cookbook, because, as she said, “It’s a truth snippet of who I am, what I like to eat, and my whole entire background.”
