Bryant Terry - Black Food : Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora [A Cookbook]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

It takes a village to create a book in under a year during a pandemic

Jidan, Mila, and Zenzi, I love you!

To all the contributors who offered words, art, and recipes, thank you for seeing my vision and bringing your brilliance to this project.

Danielle Svetcov, thank you for being such a hard-working, brilliant, and caring literary agent who always has my best interest at heart. Much appreciation to Jim Levine and the whole team at Levine Greenberg Rostan for your support over the years.

Amanda Yee, thank you for your loyalty, candor, brilliant ideas, and artistic lens through which you see the world. I appreciate you pushing me past my comfort zone and encouraging me to take risks.

Kelly Snowden, thank you for working hard behind the scenes to make everything that needs to happen happen. I am so lucky to have you as an editor and ally. Im grateful for your guidance throughout this whole process and beyond. Looking forward to creating big things with you in the coming years.

Porscha Burke, what an honor and privilege it has been working with you. Thank you for enthusiastically jumping onboard this project and working hard to make it great!

Aaron Wehner and Lorena Jones, thank you for your support of this project since we pitched it, and major thanks for enthusiastically supporting 4 Color.

Jenny Wapner, having you as the project manager for this book is a dream come true. Thank you for bringing your A++ game from beginning to end. There is no way Black Food could have come together so quickly without your hard work, publishing expertise, and general brilliance. I owe you everything!

Betsy Stromberg, thanks for creating space for a collaborative vision of what this book could be and holding together so many pieces throughout this process.

Kim Keller, Mari Gill, and Serena Sigona, thank you for all the work you put into pulling this book together so quickly. So lucky to have such seasoned pros on my team.

David Hawk and Windy Dorresteyn, Im so honored to have the best in the business working on my behalf.

Linda Harrison, thank you for believing in my vision and co-creating the chef-in-residence program that inspired this book. Major shout out to Monetta White, Elizabeth Gessel, and all the staff at the Museum of the African Diaspora for your ongoing support. Mark Sabb and Paul Plale, so glad we got to co-create powerful visuals to represent the work of our ground-breaking programming. Those flyers laid the groundwork for the visual language of this book.

Scott Alves Barton, Dara Cooper, and Thrse Nelsonthe kitchen cabinet I assembled to support me in the earliest stages working on this bookthank you for brainstorming contributors, introducing me to people I didnt know, and offering ongoing feedback to ensure that this would be the brilliant, Blackity-Black book that it is.

To all my brilliant friends who swiftly answer my texts and pick up my unplanned calls when Im having a moment or just need to run an idea by you: Shakirah Simley, Latham Thomas, Hawa Hassan, Nicole Taylor, adrienne maree brown, Joshua Gabriel, William Rosenzweig, Mike Molina, Khamisi Norwood, Shalini Kantayya, Pete Dosanjh, Chris McNeil, and Larry Ossei-Mensah. Apologies to anyone I forgot.

My old-head, West Coast, text thread crewyou know who you areyall wild dudes helped keep me sane during shelter-in-place. So blessed to be in community with such good men at this stage in my life.

Adam Mansbach, thank you for always enthusiastically offering advice, giving edits on the fly, and connecting me with the right people.

Gregory Johnson, we both had to make our way from the dirty South to NYC to meet each other, and Im glad we did. From our days at NYU until now, you are one of the smartest (and most hilarious) people I know. Much appreciation for listening to me vent, making me crack up in an instant, and giving feedback on my projects, in general. Your contribution to this book, however, is invaluable. Thank you for reminding me about important seminars/lectures we attended and encouraging me to revisit books and essays weve read; thank you for helping me shape the opening essay and offering feedback on the manuscript; thank you for being one of the realest dudes in my circle.

Polly Web, at this point, you are on my team! Thank you so much for always eagerly offering feedback, editing, and making suggestions for improvements.

Elle Simone, I thought that securing you as Black Foods recipe tester would be a long shot. When you agreed to take on this project I knew everything was clicking and in its right place. You and your team went above and beyond to ensure that these recipes work, and that they are fire! Nuff thanks to you!

Paige Arnett, Ali Cameron, Lillian Kang, Jillian Knox, Oriana Koren, yall are the dream team! Thank you for being so committed to this book-making process in a period that was extremely stressful for all of us. Im so grateful for your willingness to commit so much time preparing for our photoshoots and bringing your brilliance and magic to set. Words cant describe how much I love and appreciate yall for what you brought to OUR book, so Ill stop there.

Ashara Ekundayo, thank you for calling in the ancestors and ensuring that we had all the supportive unseen forces present at our photoshoots. Honored to have you as my cultural strategist.

George McCalman, after our conversation inside SFMOMA a few years back, I knew we would create magic together. Who knew you would be designing this book while disrupting the way we imagine book creation, though. Thank you for reminding me that process is just as important as outcome. Thank you for modeling how to run a tight team. Thank you for pushing hard to bring life to this book in the midst of all that youve been holding. I cherish our philosophical conversations, silly moments, and brotherhood. Thanks for seeing me. Thanks for supporting me. Thanks for reintroducing me to the magic of Ocean Beach!

BRYANTS BIO

Bryant Terry is a James Beard and NAACP Image AwardWinning chef, educator, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. He is the editor-in-chief of 4 Color Books, an imprint of Ten Speed Press, and he is co-principal and innovation director of Zenmi, a creative studio he runs with his wife and two daughters. Bryant has been chef-in-residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco since 2015. In this role he creates public programming at the intersection of food, farming, health, activism, art, culture, and the African diaspora. Bryant is the author of five critically-acclaimed, award-winning books such as Vegetable Kingdom , Afro-Vegan , and Vegan-Soul Kitchen . He graduated from the Chefs Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City. He is a former doctoral student who holds an MA in history with an emphasis on the African diaspora from NYU, where he studied under historian Robin D.G. Kelly. Bryant lives between Oakland and Napa Valley, California, with his family.

Visit www.bryant-terry.com and follow him on social media @BryantTerry.

CONTRIBUTORS

Zoe Adjonyoh

Selassie Atadika

Erika Council

DeVonn Francis

Tao Leigh Goffe, PhD

Keba Konte

Lazarus Lynch

Isaiah Martinez

Rahanna Bisseret Martinez

David Schmitz

Amanda Yee