moved away to culinary school and left my old life behind me. this is my chefs table moment. but i wanted to come back to d.c. so this is like a very d.c. thing. that s what makes it delicious. to reconnect with my family. how many more eggs do you need? topaz mccoy, annoying me for 39 years. and seek out a side of the city just below its surface. that smell, huh? nothing like it in the world. i haven t been on this street in over ten years. this is nuts. am i the only person here from d.c., born and raised? it s a journey, man. i m excited how excited you are. i love eating great food. it s like a good old time. i m ready. i m carlton mccoy, raised in inner city d.c., educated in kitchens around the globe. these days i make a living as a master sommelier. i m a nomad, driven to move in and out of different cultures, different worlds, to celebrate diversity by embracing what makes us both unique and the same. after all, we carry our travels with us to our ne
that s part of the beauty of the chocolate city, i think. one of those things that is a delicious, chocolate bubble that is d.c. i was very much raised in a black culture bubble. and you know, go-go was like the sound of our streets. and for those of you have never heard of d.c. go-go, it s an experience like nothing else in the world. its beats can be found in rap and hip-hop hood, but its origins started in d.c. i hear you were in a go-go band too. yeah. which one? we named it after our neighborhood. yeah. it was 41st street. i love it. i love it. that s very much on brand, because it s very much a neighborhood center. and there is a whole movement to sort of remember black d.c. s music and culture. there is a gentleman who is part of the go-go economy, donald campbell sold go-go tapes on the