Say goodbye to the old yams, and hello to the

In the depth of the pandemic Dozzy Ibekwe found hope in a yam. “I was incubating Dozzy’s Grill at [the former] Retreat at Currency Exchange Cafe in Washington Park. Across the street was a U. Chicago Medicine billboard. Its message resonated with me: resilience in the middle of the pandemic, when it was hardest to do almost anything. I asked myself how to capture that in my own work, and the yam came to mind. It’s the ‘king of crops,’ revered by a people known for resilience. I went down to the basement, grabbed a tuber, and staged the shot with the yam in the foreground and the bill

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