The HistoryMakers video oral history with Walter Royal.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 18 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11313195
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Walter Royal
Walter Royal
Other authors / contributors:Royal, Walter, 1957- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Raleigh, North Carolina 2012 February 19.
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Summary:Chef Walter Royal, Jr. was born on May 18, 1957 in Eclectic, Alabama. Royal attended LaGrange College and Auburn University, where he obtained his B.S. degree and M.S. degree in psychology. In 1983, Royal enrolled in the Nathalie Dupree Cooking School in Atlanta. He was then hired as a sous chef at the Fearrington House in Pittsboro, North Carolina. After moving on to the Magnolia Grill in Durham, North Carolina as a chef, Royal joined the Angus Barn in 1995, where he became the executive chef. Royal has won numerous culinary awards. In 1997, he was the first African American chef to be awarded the Restaurant Guild's Five Star Chef of the Year award. He was also deemed one of the James Beard Foundation's Rising Stars. Royal was honored as one of the Top Five Chefs in the Southeast and the Top Black Chef in America.