May 12, Tuesday -- If "fresh" and "healthy" aren't the first adjectives that come to mind when you think of soul food, Oakland-based "eco-chef" Bryant Terry has recipes and ideas that may surprise you. Terry, currently a fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, uses cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections between poverty, racism and food insecurity. He will talk about his ideas, and sign copies of his new cookbook, "Vegan Soul Kitchen," from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 12.
Terry's talk, "Redefining Soul Food: Politics and Pleasures of Food & Eating in Black Communities," will take place in the Sensory Theatre at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Science at °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ. A light vegan lunch, inspired by Terry's recipes, will be served.
The Black Family Week event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ Humanities Institute, Robert Mondavi Institute, Foods for Health Institute, °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ Extension Program, African American Studies Research Cluster and East Quad Farmers Market. For more information, contact Kimberly Nettles at kdnettles@ucdavis.edu.
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Claudia Morain, (530) 752-9841, cmmorain@ucdavis.edu