Citizens from all over the globe and their descendants now call the US home sweet home. One of the perks, international cuisines made in America. I'm Megan Mitchell, and today we're exploring the culinary heritage that. Since the quest to live one's best life while honoring the beauty that was left behind. We'll start our food crawl in sunny Santa Fe. KOAT's Faith Eguano serves up *** story of *** go-getter who never forgot where he came from. It was an easy life from off the coast of Kenya in East Africa, born and raised into poverty, Ahmed Oba worked hard to provide for his family. My dad, he was the one going to work, you know, it was hard work watching him, so I pretty much volunteered myself, the oldest of 11 siblings. Have much so we were living by renting *** house here and there. My mom, she would make bread to give it to us to bring with us to school and *** little money to spend during the break. As *** teen, Ahmed often cooked for tourists. We cut the fish, so we bring the vegetables and spices, whatever we catch, whatever. You know, I earn, I bring home, yeah, I pretty much quit school so I can't help my family. He had no clue where his skills in the kitchen will lead him from there, uh, and just see how people are responding. It's like, wow, this food is so good, and that's like, you know, OK. The American dream, as he calls it, but says it was never the plan. I just wanna do something different than cooking. I wanted to, yeah, so I wanted to do maybe work on the cars or the construction. I wanted to add on to my list of whatever, you know, life would take me, but I fell right into the kitchen when I arrived here in 1995. 14 years later, he opened his first restaurant, Jumbo Cafe in Santa Fe. Serving up delicious African Caribbean fusion dishes. This award winning restaurant has been featured on Food Network and it's *** top contender for best restaurants across the state. Now he is paying the Ford supporting his very own health care clinic back home, Jumbo Kids clinic, so we have the foundation here and then the project is home. Hard work but well worth it. So yes, it's worth uh worth the risk I took.