Trey Owens: JewFro

Trey Owens' life is a beautiful circle. After growing up in
Richmond, Owens' life took him around the world working on cruise
ships and later military vessels.


He eventually landed back in Richmond where he became part of the
team that opened both Soul Taco and JewFro, the latter a
restaurant that combines African and Jewish cuisine. 


"The focus [of JewFro] is to bring people together and to start,
or/and continue the conversation about these two culinary
pathways, these two cultures, and what is so similar about them,"
Owens said.


Owens was selected this year to travel to Israel to learn more
about the people and the food. 


"We got to meet Palestinians. We got to meet Israelis. We got to
meet Ethiopian-Israeli Jews. We got to meet Muslims. Just so many
different people that we got to meet and talk to," he said. "What
I really learned and saw was that the people themselves all got
along. It was only that when I got into formal places, I'm not
gonna say where, but you could kind of see the divide. And it's
just like, come on, you know, these people who I met and bumped
shoulders with, you know what I mean, they don't feel that way."


Listen to Eat It, Virginia, to hear more about Trey's trip and
his culinary that took him around the world and back home.


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