In 1994, he became the first Black chef to win the James Beard Foundation's Best Chef Award.
The famed chef touched on his ideology during a 1994 interview shared on YouTube by the African American Chefs Hall of Fame.
Patrick's remarks weren't a knock against Black American cuisine.
Instead, it was an unapologetic declaration that Black chefs can't — and won't — be pigeonholed.
Black chefs at that time were fighting stereotypes that they could only excel at making soul food.
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