Thurs Oct 8, 7 pm: Bryant Terry (author of Vegan Soul Kitchen) at Stanford University

[Guest guest]

*** Please Forward Widely ***

 

This event is free and open to the public.

 

What: Bryant Terry speaks on " Redefining Soul Food: Politics and Pleasures of

Food and Eating in the Black Communities "

When: Thursday, October 8, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Where: Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings (Nathan) Art Building, Stanford

University

Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/

 

 

Bryant Terry is an eco chef, food justice activist, and author of Vegan Soul

Kitchen (VSK): Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine. For the

past nine years he has worked to build a more just and sustainable food system

and has used cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections between poverty,

structural racism, gender, and food insecurity. His interest in cooking,

farming, and community health can be traced back to his childhood in Memphis,

Tennessee, where his grandparents inspired him to grow, prepare, and appreciate

good food.

 

Terry is currently a fellow of the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, a

national project of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. He has garnered many honors and

awards for his work including receiving the inaugural Natural Gourmet Institute

Award for Excellence in Health-Supportive Food Education.

 

Terry's first book (coauthored with Anna Lappé, foreword by Eric Schlosser),

Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, is a winner of a 2007 Nautilus Award

for Social Change. Since the publication of Grub, Bryant has traveled to dozens

of cities, doing cooking demonstrations and speaking at public events as well as

at universities and colleges. Terry also contributes essays and recipes to a

number of online and print outlets, and his work has been featured in Gourmet,

Food and Wine, The New York Times Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and

many other publications. Terry has a regular column -- " Eco-Soul Kitchen " -- on

TheRoot.com and he has made dozens of national radio and television appearances

(Fox, NBC, PBS, BET, and Sundance) and was a host on The Endless Feast, a

13-episode public television series that explores the connection between the

earth and the food on our plates.

 

In 2002, Bryant founded b-healthy! (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help

Youth), a multi-year initiative designed to empower youth to be active in

creating a more just and sustainable food system.

 

Bryant Terry's new book, " Vegan Soul Kitchen, " will be available for purchase at

the event.

 

This event is part of The Ethics of Food & the Environment series.

 

Sponsor: Center for Ethics in Society (http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/)

 

Co-sponsors: Program in African & African American Studies, the Program in Human

Biology, Modern Thought & Literature, Black Graduate Students Association, and

Feminist Studies.

 

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References:

http://event.stanford.edu/events/203/20353/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryant_Terry

 

Reviews of " Vegan Soul Kitchen " --

http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2009/04/mojo-video-bryant-terrys-vegan-soul\

-kitchen

http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/1292/

http://civileats.com/2009/04/07/bryant-terry-delivers-the-goods/

http://www.theroot.com/views/vegan-soul-food-tasty-read