Occupation Chef, Author Name Bryant Terry | Role Chef TV shows The Endless Feast | |
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Born January 24, 1976 (age 48) ( 1976-01-24 ) Memphis, TN, USA Parents Beatrice L. Terry, Booker L. Terry Nominations NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional Books Vegan Soul Kitchen: F, The Inspired Vegan: S, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Or, Afro‑Vegan: Farm‑Fresh African - C, Inspired Vegan - The: Sea Profiles | ||
Mother jones chef bryant terry makes citrus collards with raisins
Bryant Terry is an African American vegan eco-chef, food justice activist, and author. His most recent book is Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed, which was published in April 2014.
Contents
- Mother jones chef bryant terry makes citrus collards with raisins
- Cooking with afro vegan bryant terry
- Early life and education
- Career
- Writing and speaking engagements
- Honors and awards
- Personal life
- References
Cooking with afro vegan bryant terry
Early life and education
Terry grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated with honors in English from Xavier University of Louisiana. He then moved to New York City to attend graduate school in History at New York University. After getting his M.A., he enrolled in the chef's training program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City.
Career
In 2001, Terry founded b-healthy! (Build Healthy Eating And Lifestyles To Help Youth), a five-year initiative created to raise awareness about food justice issues and empower youth to be active in creating a more just and sustainable food system. In 2002 he received a Community Fellowship from the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) to support b-healthy's work, in which he led chef-educators Ludie Minaya, Elizabeth Johnson, and Latham Thomas in reaching out to thousands of youth in the United States.
In the spring of 2003, Terry met author Anna Lappé. That fall they began writing a Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (ISBN 1585424595), which was soon bought by Tarcher/Penguin and published in 2006. Grub received a 2007 Nautilus Book Award for Social Change.
Among his national radio and television appearances, Terry has offered his commentary on the Sundance Channel's original series Big Ideas for a Small Planet. He has been a guest chef on three episodes of the BET series My Two Cents. Terry was also a host on the PBS series The Endless Feast.
Terry is a consultant for the Bioneers Conference. He has helped raise funds for the People's Grocery in West Oakland, and he consults for other not-for-profit organizations as well as corporations. He appeared on the "Nourish: Food + Community" PBS special that aired in 2008, and he has also served on the advisory board for the project's educational component.
From 2008 to 2010, Terry was a Food and Society Policy Fellow, a national program of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
In 2015, Terry was named the inaugural Chef-in-Residence for the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.
Writing and speaking engagements
Terry's writing and recipes have been featured in Gourmet, Food and Wine, The New York Times Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, Vibe, Domino, Mothering, Food and Wine, Plenty, Delicious Living, and other print magazines. He has contributed to ABC.com and TheRoot.com among others. His column on TheRoot.com, "Eco-Soul Kitchen", offers thoughts, recipes, tools, and tips for sustainable eating and living. His essay, "Reclaiming True Grits", was widely circulated on the web and sparked heated debate about "soul food".
In 2015, Terry gave a talk at the annual TEDMED conference on "Stirring up political change from the kitchen".
Honors and awards
Personal life
Terry married Jidan Koon, an organizational development consultant, in September 2010. They reside in Oakland, California with their children.