Welcome
Welcome
Honoring our Past
We ground this project in history offering context and reverent space to explore the lives of the Black bodies who gave their skill and brilliance to American culinary tradition.
Celebrating our Work
We tell the stories of our peers and colleagues so that history doesn’t do it for us, so a huge mission of this project is to be the record of this generation in food.
Building our Future
One of the main reason this project exist is to provide an intellectual starting point for Black professionals to use to build their careers. We offer the resources of this project as a blueprint for intentional and contextual work.
Black Food is..…
A safe space for Black folks to see themselves and each other.
A repository for Black culture that connects us across the African diaspora.
A record of Black history that tell the most honest story of the human experience.
An inherently political act that is the litmus test of progress.
Spotlight
In 2019, my brother in Black foodways Michael W. Twitty, and I had the pleasure of engaging in conversation about Black Culinary History at the New York Public Library for their Schomburg Center for Research’s Inaugural Literary Festival.
Although this was not our first public dialogue, it certainly stood out as our most impactful. During that enriching hour, we delved deeply into critical topics such as the responsibility of culinary stewardship, the power inherent in food writing and scholarly research, and the expansive possibilities that culinary history as a discipline holds for our community.
For me, this enlightening exchange encapsulates everything you need to understand about the foundational conceit of this project and the intellectual praxis that informs this work.