James Beard Award-winning chef Kwame Onwuachi offers advice on turning your home cooking into an enhanced dining experience on the "Salon 5." Onwuachi, owner of Philly Wing Fry and executive chef at the Washington D.C. restaurant Kith and Kin, gives simple tips and ingredient add-ons that are guaranteed to make your food taste more gourmet.

In Onwuachi's memoir "Notes From a Young Black Chef", he explains how his early love for food sparked a culinary career filled with extreme highs and lows.

Watch the video above to learn a clever way to have garlic ready, and how to make an easy and quick chicken stock. Check out Kwame Onwuachi's "Salon Talks" episode to learn more about his personal story and how he developed Kith and Kith's menu around four pillars of his background and their respective cuisines-Jamaican, Nigerian, Creole and Trinidadian.