Bryant Terry - Vegetable kingdom : the abundant world of plant-based recipes

acknowledgments

This book could not have come to life without the support of my family. Thank you Jidan for giving me space to work on this project, taking the girls most weekends and holidays, and generally being a supportive friend, wife, and mother. Im the luckiest man in the world to have you as my partner. Thank you, Mila and Zenzi, for inspiring this book. Becoming your Baba is the best thing that ever happened to me, and I love you more than anything.

Mom and Dad, thank you for your unwavering love and support. I hope that I make you very proud.

Mama Wong and Baba Koon, thank you for the innumerable ways that you support me and our family. I am honored to be your son-in-law.

Danielle Svetcov, thank you for being my super agent, confidant, occasional therapist, and fan. Big thanks to the whole team at Levine Greenberg Rostan for your support.

The team at The Lavin Agency, many thanks for making sure that I can spread the gospel around the globe.

My MoAD family, I am eternally grateful for your genuine support: Linda Harrison (always with us in spirit), Elizabeth Gessel, Mark Sabb, Paul Plale, James G. Leventhal, and the rest of the staff and board.

Thank you to Heidi Swanson, Erin Scott, Latham Thomas, Kalalea, and Nicole Taylor for support, advice, and friendship over the years.

Kate Williams, this book could not have happened without your hard work and brilliance. You are, forks down, the most bad-ass recipe tester out in these streets. Im indebted to you for the expertise and enthusiasm that you brought to this book.

Thank you to Polly Webb and Amanda Yee for enthusiasm, support, and vital feedback on this project.

Thank you to Money Mike Molina, Stephen Satterfield, and Tunde Wey for your help and guidance on my introduction.

Leda Scheintaub, thank you for always having my back and testing recipes for me in a pinch.

Monifa Dayo, thank you for recipe development, food consulting, and food styling.

Adam Mansbach, thank you for enthusiastically supporting me in taking my game to the next levelfrom last minute editing to introducing me to the right people.

Torrance Rodgers, thank you for letting me borrow your precious vinyl.

Weyland Southon and Alicia Yang, thank you for introducing me to my wife!

Gregory Johnson, thank you for frequent check-ins, top-notch editing, and brilliant advice.

Ietef aka DJ Cavem, thank you for inspiring me to Keep it 100.

Michael Orange, thank you for supporting my movement since day one.

Thank you to my YMCA bootcamp family, with a special shout-out to Al Smith Fernandez and David Derryck.

Aaron Wehner, publisher of Ten Speed Press, thank you for believing in me, trusting my vision, and giving me a platform.

Kelly Snowden, my brilliant editor at Ten Speed Press, working with you has been such a joy and a pleasure. Thank you for your patience, vision, sense of humor, and ability to bring the best out of me.

Betsy Stromberg, senior art director at Ten Speed, thank you for genuinely investing in the beauty of this book. I had fun hanging out on set!

Kim Keller, production editor at Ten Speed, thank you for your attention to detail, kindness, and genuine enthusiasm for making this a successful project.

Thank you to Ten Speed Press publicist David Hawk, Ten Speed Press marketing manager Windy Dorresteyn, and Ten Speed Press production manager Serena Sigona.

Thank you to the copyeditor Ivy McFadden and proofreader Amy Kovalski.

To Ed Anderson (photographer), Lillian Kang (food stylist), and Veronica Laramie (assistant food stylist) and Monifa Dayo: you are the reason this book is so gorgeous! Thank you for being fun, hard working, and brilliant at your craft.

Thank you to all the unnamed people who are important in my work and life.

about the author

Bryant Terry is a James Beard Awardwinning chef, educator, and author, renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food systems. He is in his fifth year as chef-in-residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, where he creates public programming that celebrates the intersection of food, farming, health, activism, art, culture, and the African Diaspora. In regard to his work, Bryants mentor Alice Waters says, Bryant Terry knows that good food should be an everyday right and not a privilege. San Francisco Magazine included Bryant among Eleven Smartest People in the Bay Area Food Scene, and Fast Company named him one of Nine People Who Are Changing the Future of Food.

Afro-Vegan, Bryants fourth book, was published by Ten Speed Press April 2014. Two months later, Amazon named it one of the best cookbooks of the year, and it was included on several year-end best cookbooks lists. Bryant is also the author of the critically acclaimed Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine, which was named one of the best vegetarian/vegan cookbooks of the last twenty-five years by Cooking Light Magazine. He coauthored Grub in 2006 (with Anna Lappe), which the New York Times called ingenious.

Bryant currently serves on the advisory board for From Mothers to Mothers, an undergraduate student project based at UC Berkeley that focuses on Postpartum Justice. Bryant and the group hosted their first summit at MoAD in the Spring of 2019, and they are currently working with Bay Area restaurants to create and highlight postpartum recipes on their menus for nursing mothers. Bryant also served as the humanities advisor on and wrote the forward for the Between Meals cookbook project, which shares the recipes and stories of newly-arrived refugee and immigrant women.

Bryants work has been featured in the New York Times, Food and Wine, Gourmet, Sunset, O: The Oprah Magazine, Essence, Yoga Journal, and Vegetarian Times among many other publications. As an exclusive speaker signed with the Lavin Agency, Bryant presents frequently around the country as a keynote speaker at community events, conferences, corporations, and colleges including Brown, Columbia, NYU, Smith, Stanford, and Yale.

In 2013 he was the face of a Scion/Toyota ad campaign shot by Doug Prey. That same year he worked with Barry Jenkins on Olivari Olive Oils The Little Things Are Everything campaign. Bryant has made hundreds of national television and radio appearances, including being a guest on The Martha Stewart Show, Emeril Green, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and The Splendid Table.

In 2002 Bryant founded b-healthy (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help Youth), a multiyear initiative in New York City designed to empower youth to be more active in working toward a more sustainable food system.

Bryant graduated from the Chefs Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City. He holds a M.A. in History from NYU and a B.A. with honors in English from Xavier University of Louisiana. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife and their two daughters.

To learn more about Bryant, visit his website at www.bryant-terry.com and follow him on instagram: @bryantterry

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