Mawa McQueen is a chef, author and the proud owner of multiple restaurants in Aspen and Snowmass Village, CO,: Mawa’s Kitchen, Mawita, and The Crepe Shack (two locations). Her life experiences growing up on the Ivory Coast and in Europe, and eventually moving to the United States were the foundation that ignited her passion for bringing food and comfort to people from all walks of life. She has been recognized for both her talent as a chef and entrepreneur, awarded the Colorado Governor’s Minority Business Award on multiple occasions and was recognized nationally and internationally by the James Beard Foundation when she was nominated as a semifinalist for the James Beard Award Best Chef West. Her flagship restaurant Mawa’s Kitchen received the honor of becoming a MICHELIN Guide recommended restaurant in Colorado’s inaugural edition. Dedicated to inspiring everyone with her food and her story, Mawa begin her journey as an author with her first cookbook, Mawa's Way, which is not only a collection of fan favorite recipes from Mawa’s Kitchen in Aspen, CO, but also a story of grit and perseverance to achieve one’s dreams. Along with her restaurants and highly successful catering business, Mawa is also the prominent owner of a granola company where she produces her own variation of granola. Mawa’s GrainFreeNola is a delicious gluten-free, protein-rich, and vegan granola. It is made with the highest quality organic nuts and seeds and sweetened with Medjool dates. In addition to cultivating culinary destinations in Aspen and Snowmass, Mawa’s status as a celebrity chef continues to grow. She travels to culinary festivals and events around the United States and internationally, many of them with Food & Wine magazine and Food Network, sharing her recipes and cuisine with participants and attendees. Mawa has also been featured on numerous TV shows, including the TODAY Show, Envoye Special on France 2 and 66 Minutes on M6, and has been written about in Forbes and Le Parisien among many other major publications. When Mawa is not cooking, running her multiple restaurants and granola business, she finds time to give back to her communities. She is an alumna of the James Beard Foundation Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program and currently serves on the Isaacson School Executive Advisory Board, the Colorado Restaurant Foundation board, the Ment’or Culinary Council and the Sylvia Center Culinary Council. She continues to advocate for Africa and its people and serves on the board for Brake The Cycle, which she helped raise funds to build a well to provide an entire village in Zambia with access to clean water, and is an Ambassador for Action in Africa, a nonprofit that promotes community development and increasing the accessibility, affordability and quality of education in Uganda for both kids and adults.
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