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Her menu also features pork infused with both Asian and Puerto Rican flavours, Latin American-style seabass ceviche, a new take on southern staple cornbread and chilli and even burgers laced with truffle mayo, the speciality of her collaborators Le Bun. Rogers will be cooking up her own take on the arepas of Venezuela and Vietnamese meatballs bánh mì, and experimenting with the pineapple and yucca beloved of Caribbean cuisine. Rather than opting for a single style of cuisine, the plates and ingredients nods both to Kelis’s own Caribbean and American heritage, and the hundreds of dishes and styles she experienced travelling the world, having spent “the best part of 20 years on tour”.
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Rogers developed the menu for her Soho pop-up over three days with Andy Taylor, one half of Le Bun. Photograph: Nicky J Sims/Redferns via Getty Images Kelis on stage at Somerset House in London. Food is a choice and I think because of that, there’s a certain level of respect that has to go into it.” She adds: “There’s also something aggressive about music – it attacks your ears even when you don’t want to listen – whereas food is the total opposite. The fact that it has been a success for me is really God-given because I could not care less what people like.” I’ve always made music very specifically for myself. I really do feel that music is a very selfish thing. Having spent 20 years in music, Rogers admitted she gets a very different kind of joy when cooking for people from singing for them.
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“But keeping things super balanced, bringing together flavours I’ve experienced from all over the world, is what I think makes me stand out as a chef.” “I cook like my character – it’s loud and colourful and really in-your-face,” says Rogers, as she flits about the kitchen stirring and sprinkling. She will then take her cuisine on the road, serving it up at festivals around the UK. Indeed, cooking is now so much of a passion for Rogers that she is opening a pop-up restaurant in London for the first time in July, collaborating with the cooking duo Le Bun.