Notes from a Young Black Chef
Themes from Notes from a Young Black Chef
- 24 Organizations Finding Food JusticeWith a focus on participation and inclusivity, these groups use food justice to empower communities to control how they grow, distribute, access, and eat food.
- America at Hunger's EdgeA shadow of hunger looms over the United States. In the pandemic economy, nearly one in eight households doesn’t have enough to eat.
- The New Face of HungerMillions of working Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from. We sent three photographers to explore hunger in three very different parts of the United States, each giving different faces to the same statistic: One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat.
- People of Color are at Greater Risk of COVID-19. Systemic Racism in the Food System Plays a Role.Food apartheid and economic inequality are among the factors leading to high rates of infections and deaths of Black and brown Americans.
- Poor People Deserve To Taste Something Other Than ShameMy mom was already ashamed and sorry. She deserved to also eat pie.
- What Is Food Justice and Why Is It Necessary?For all people who care about a sustainable food system, food justice is an imperative, and there are many inspiring models to follow and support.
- What We Eat During a PlagueOver the past months, Americans have embraced comfort food with a renewed fervor. But this isn’t the first time culinary habits have shifted during a pandemic.
Watch the award winning documentary directed by Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush as they examine the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a single Philadelphia mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a better life for her two kids; Rosie, a Colorado fifth - grader who often has to depend on friends and neighbors to feed her and has trouble concentrating in school; and Tremonica, a Mississippi second - grader whose asthma and health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford.
- A Chef Reclaims His Southern Culinary HistoryResearching, celebrating and supporting African American food culture is Michael Twitty’s way to honor and heal those who came before.
- For Black Jam Makers, the Power Is in PreservingAs the conversation turns to racial issues in the craft food movement, canning quality fruit is often the easy part.
- The Hidden Significance of What We EatHow we eat and talk about food are key parts of our identities. Three experts chat the politics of pork, where meals teach egalitarian values and the one food everyone agrees on: cake.
- The Joy of FoodFood is more than survival. With it we make friends, court lovers, and count our blessings.
- A Nigerian Dish, Pieced Together From Our Bronx PantryKwame Onwuachi on egusi stew, a labor of love.
- Padma Lakshmi Wants Us to Eat More AdventurouslyPart food travelogue, part exploration of the benefits and blind spots of multiculturalism, Hulu’s “Taste the Nation” finds Lakshmi cracking crab shells with South Carolina’s Gullah Geechee community, partaking of brats and beer at Oktoberfest in Milwaukee and comparing flour and corn tortillas along the border in El Paso.
- The Profound Significance of ‘High on the Hog’A new limited series on Netflix is a nuanced celebration of African Americans and their food.
- Southern Foodways Alliance Oral History: Charleston StoriesStories from the culinary luminaries of the Lowcountry filmed aboard the SFA Oral History Bus.
- Telling Stories through FoodFood is a powerful vehicle for storytelling. This is true both for individuals and at the collective level. Food is who we are, where we come from, how we live, what we believe, and who we will become.
- What Food Tells Us About CultureHave you ever wondered what the food you eat everyday can tell you about where you come from? There is more of a connection between food and culture than you may think.
- Why Food Memories Are So PowerfulLured by a food from her childhood, a woman returns to a country that no longer exists to confront her family’s secret past.
- Why Hunting Down 'Authentic Ethnic Food' Is A Loaded PropositionOur culinary hunt for "authentic ethnic" food can be a double-edged sword.
Every year on the day before Thanksgiving, members of the Colleton-Green family of Awendaw, South Carolina, head out to the woods to hunt squirrels for the annual feast. This short film chronicles this tradition. Produced in association with the 2011 BB&T Charleston Wine + Food Festival by the UM Media & Documentary Projects Center and the Southern Foodways Alliance.
Four generations of a Jewish immigrant family create Russ and Daughters, a Lower East Side lox and herring emporium that survives and thrives. Produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the store, this documentary features an extensive interview with two of the original daughters for whom the store was named, now 100 and 92 years old, and interviews with prominent enthusiasts of the store including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, actor Maggie Gyllenhaal, chef Mario Batali and 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer.
- 'Problems Bigger Than Bon Appétit': How Food World Struggles With Structural RacismNPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alex Abad-Santos, a senior writer for Vox, about a lack of diversity among chefs, writers and reviewers in the food world.
- America's Long Overdue Awakening to Systemic RacismFor many of those who have spent their lives fighting for racial justice, this is a moment of reckoning that has been a long time coming.
- Breaking Poverty: Crime, Poverty Often LinkedExplores the reasons that poverty and trauma often go hand in hand.
- Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change.A powerful visitors’ bureau has pushed the South Carolina city to the top of “best” lists by selling gentility. Critics say that has come at the expense of history and the city’s Black population.
- How We Should Talk about Racial DisparitiesBy naming what creates and maintains racial disparities, we can challenge harmful narratives.
- I Was a Fast-Food Worker. Let Me Tell You About Burnout.As technology ratchets up the stress, low-wage jobs have become some of the hardest in America.
- The Other Inequality Is StructuralWe experience structural inequality — see it in the quality of local schools and their test scores, smell it in the access to healthy food or not, feel it in a sense of safety or danger as we walk the streets.
- The Racial Wealth Gap: A Stark Reflection of Structural Inequality - Lessons Learned from Two Decades of WorkRigorous scholarly research has underscored the powerful consequences of lacking wealth, as opposed to merely lacking income, and called out the stark racial wealth gap that persisted in America.
- What Is Systemic Racism? Here's What It Means and How You Can Help Dismantle ItSystemic racism impacts nearly ever facet of life for people of color. Activists and advocates say more work needs to be done to dismantle it.
Tony Brown's Journal, Racist Racism or Anti-Racist Racism?
In this 1982 episode of Tony Brown's Journal, Brown discusses racism with Blanche Boyd. A shockingly relevant conversation about race despite the age of the episode.
- African American Culinary Chefs You Should KnowToday, a new wave of African American chefs safeguards southern foodways. As they reintroduce recipes in the nation’s top kitchens, they humanize how the public sees black chefs.
- Don’t Eat Before Reading ThisA New York chef spills some trade secrets.
- How These 5 Restaurateurs Are Establishing a Kitchen Culture That's Safe for Everyone“Stop mumbling that you can't afford an HR dept. You can afford YOU. That's how you start."
- A Jury of My Peers"If there were more critics who are people of color, would things be different?" asks chef Kwame Onwuachi.
- The Kitchen at Per Se Was a Clean Place but Hard and Heartless TooKwame Onwuachi’s memoir, “Notes From a Young Black Chef,” reveals kitchen abuse at Thomas Keller’s NYC restaurant
- Tom Colicchio on Reinventing Kitchen Culture and Empowering a New Generation of TalentThe Top Chef judge and restaurateur calls on fellow chefs to change the bro culture in professional kitchens.
- Toxic Kitchen Culture: Reform Is Sorely Needed in 2020Since their inception, kitchens in the restaurant world have been notoriously abusive toward cooks, especially for women and people of color. Is change on the horizon?
- Where are the Black Chefs? | Culinary Arts | Q&A | PBSIn a special feature by PBS Black Culture Connection, the author explores the issue of African Americans in modern kitchen culture turning to the experiences of 15 leading chefs and bloggers
- Black In Business: Celebrating The Legacy Of Black EntrepreneurshipThe black community’s long history of entrepreneurship is marked by ebbs and flows, but the black community demonstrates a collective ability to persevere against all odds.
- Grit (effortful persistence)...is associated with career success and career engagementGrit (effortful persistence) can be measured with a short scale, shows little variation across socio-demographic subgroups, and is associated with career success and career engagement.
- The Importance Of PerseverancePerseverance and persistence are equally crucial in the work required to turn a business into a viable enterprise, given the challenges and roadblocks thrown up along the way.
- Unpacking grit: Motivational correlates of perseverance and passion for long-term goalsTwo cross-sectional studies explained that explored the motivational orientations correlates of the character strength of grit and its two component facets: perseverance of effort and consistency of interests over time.
- What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur? Perseverance.Success is about not giving up and being the last man or woman standing when everyone else has fallen by the wayside.