Chef Mawa McQueen Is Charting Her Own Course With Grain-Free Granola
Find out how McQueen’s incredible life has influenced Mawa‘s GrainFreeNola granola and her two restaurants, Mawa’s Kitchen in Aspen and the Crêpe Shack in Snowmass Village.Sarah Kuta •
February 26, 2021
As a little girl growing up in Africa and Paris,
Mawa McQueen always saw the world differently. When she thought about her future, she was never content to settle for the opportunities readily available to her and other immigrants in France, jobs like housekeeping or looking after children. She wanted more. “I was always a rebellious person—you can’t put me here and say, ‘This is it,’” McQueen says. “It’s something I never understood, why I always had the desire to get out of there. I always felt so odd, like why do I have this thing inside of me that says I have to be different and do differently? Why am I not like the shy quiet girl and just do what I’m supposed to do?”