Family, we’ve missed you! Thank you all so much for tuning into season 2 of the podcast. We’re so honored we got to amplify these stories of the Black innovators changing the face of food. All the love you’ve shown us has gotten us nominated for a Webby Award! *insert air horns* We’re up for Best Branded Podcast, and to win the People’s Voice Award we need all the votes we can get. Voting ends April 18th at the link below! Share, share, share. https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2024/podc...
Apr 15, 2024•1 min•Season 2Ep. 7
BEM Books & More is a bookstore in downtown Brooklyn that exclusively sells Black food literature – cookbooks, foreign literature, novels, children's books, photo books, and any book that has rich, sumptuous descriptions of food. Jade sits with Gabrielle and Danielle Davenport, the sisters behind the first-of-its-kind bookshop. To learn more about BEM Books and more, please visit bembrooklyn.com
May 25, 2023•11 min
At the end of the journey, back in Brooklyn, and putting all the pieces together. Season 2 host Jade Verette (@JadeofallJades) sits down with Black food historian, Soul Food Scholar, and host of Season 1, Adrian Miller, to make sense of all that she’s encountered over the course of her travels, and why Black food writing lies at the center of it all. Jade also sits down with Chala June to discuss why Black food writing is an act of resistance as much as it is an expression of love.
May 23, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 6
In addition to being a non-profit founder, executive director, community leader and recipient of very many awards, Kelly Carlisle is also incredibly funny. Hear her tell the story of the time she met President Obama at the White House under the most unexpected of circumstances.
May 18, 2023•14 min
We all know that food is more than food. It’s medicine – for the body, the soul, the heart…and for the community? The future? The wounds of the past? Host Jade Varette (@JadeofallJades) chases some sunshine in California and meets with two women harnessing the healing power of food in transformative ways: Kelly Carlisle – founder and Executive Director of Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project out of Oakland – who is rewriting the narrative around the youth of her community, and chef/artist/Bl...
May 16, 2023•41 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Before their interview, Marlon takes Jade on a tour through HiFi Mycology, where he does his daily mushroom shopping. In between descriptions of his favorite mushrooms, the Plant Based G drops some delicious cooking tips, bodybuilding wisdom, and other insights he’s gathered along the way.
May 11, 2023•13 min
Jade’s (@Jadeofalljades) journey through the South has so far brought her closer to community, closer to family, and now…closer to body? In this episode, vegan chefs Folami Geter of A Peace of Soul Vegan Kitchen in Columbia, SC, and Marlon Rison of Community Vegan in Austin, TX, share how they came to the plant-based lifestyle, what’s keeping them there, and how it connects us to each other and our history in unexpected ways. Follow Folami’s restaurant on Instagram @peaceofsoulsc and Marlon’s fo...
May 09, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 4
After their conversation, Rollen took Jade and the team on a tour of Turnbridge Plantation, where they met up with alligators and birds and poops of all kind.
May 04, 2023•19 min
In our next stops on this road trip, we go straight to the heart of the Lowcountry to learn about two ancient and storied grains making big waves today: fonio and Carolina Gold rice. At James Island, our host Jade (@JadeofallJades) chats with matriarch in the making, Amethyst Ganaway (@thizzg) of Yolélé, about the so-called seed of the universe, before heading further south to Hardeeville, where she meets with master rice grower, Rollen Chalmers of Rollen’s Raw Grains (@RollensRawGrains). We may...
May 02, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In this week’s main episode, our guest, KJ Kearney (@BlackFoodFridays) mentions the Red Rice Day Proclamation he penned that was unanimously ratified by the City of Charleston. We asked him to read a selection of the text…
Apr 27, 2023•2 min
KJ Kearney is the charismatic, community-oriented influencer driven by the love of his people. He may be behind the James Beard nominated @BlackFoodFridays TikTok and Instagram accounts, but what drives him goes much deeper than what you can find on the internet. Jade (@JadeofallJades) spends the day with him in Charleston and Savannah, and chats with him to find out how (and why) he’s making sense of social in this day and age. Tik Tok: @BlackFoodFridays Instagram: @BlackFoodFridays...
Apr 25, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 2
This is the story of the Williams family and their business, Delta Dirt Distillery, in Helena, Arkansas, the only Black farm-to-bottle distiller in the country, and the only ones turning sweet potatoes into spirits. To purchase merch, and for more information, head to DeltaDirtDistillery.com
Apr 18, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Introducing Season 2 of the Black Kitchen Series Podcast: Innovators! Tune in weekly as we travel across America to find a few of the brilliant Black chefs, artists, activists, distillers, matriarchs, farmers, writers and historians changing the face of food as we understand it. Hosted by @JadeofallJades.
Apr 14, 2023•30 sec
The Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller, interviews Ms. Virginia Hardesty and Ashley Hardesty-Armstrong of Forsyth Seafood Market & Café, the family-run and owned fish joint in Winston-Salem, NC. With the help of our friends at the Lee Initiative and the Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice Coalition, we announced the 71 Fellows of the Black Kitchen Initiative Black-owned restaurant grants. With this podcast, we dive a little deeper into 6 of their stories. Learn more about the Black Kitchen...
Sep 24, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 6
The Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller, interviews Ms. Hatcher and Uncle Floyd, matriarch and pit-master of the legendary Lannie’s Bar-B-Q Spot in Selma, AL. With the help of our friends at the Lee Initiative and the Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice Coalition, we announced the 71 Fellows of the Black Kitchen Initiative Black-owned restaurant grants. With this podcast, we dive a little deeper into 6 of their stories. Learn more about the Black Kitchen Initiative at BlackKitchenInitiative.com...
Sep 24, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 5
The Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller, interviews Chef Christian Gill, owner-chef of Cincinnati's Boomtown Biscuits & Whiskey. With the help of our friends at the Lee Initiative and the Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice Coalition, we announced the 71 Fellows of the Black Kitchen Initiative Black-owned restaurant grants. With this podcast, we dive a little deeper into 6 of their stories. Learn more about the Black Kitchen Initiative at BlackKitchenInitiative.com Cover art by Lo Harris....
Sep 24, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 4
The Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller, interviews April Anderson, owner and head baker at Good Cakes and Bakes of Detroit, MI. With the help of our friends at the Lee Initiative and the Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice Coalition, we announced the 71 Fellows of the Black Kitchen Initiative Black-owned restaurant grants. With this podcast, we dive a little deeper into 6 of their stories. Learn more about the Black Kitchen Initiative at BlackKitchenInitiative.com Cover art by Lo Harris.
Sep 24, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller, interviews Karl Williams, owner and head mixologist at Harlem’s 67 Orange. With the help of our friends at the Lee Initiative and the Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice Coalition, we announced the 71 Fellows of the Black Kitchen Initiative Black-owned restaurant grants. With this podcast, we dive a little deeper into 6 of their stories. Learn more about the Black Kitchen Initiative at BlackKitchenInitiative.com Cover art by Shanee Benjamin.
Sep 24, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 2
The Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller, interviews Ms. B.J. Chester-Tamayo, cookbook author and owner of Alcenia’s Desserts & Preserves Shop in Memphis, TN. With the help of our friends at the Lee Initiative and the Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice Coalition, we announced the 71 Fellows of the Black Kitchen Initiative Black-owned restaurant grants. With this podcast, we dive a little deeper into 6 of their stories. Learn more about the Black Kitchen Initiative at BlackKitchenInitiative....
Sep 24, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
