The generation of African American chefs who rose to national prominence in the 2010s represents the most significant moment of culinary reclamation in African American history — chefs who explicitly named the African and African American sources of American food, documented them in their menus and their writing, and received the James Beard Awards and Michelin stars that had been systematically denied to their predecessors.
The contemporary African American fine dining movement.
EAST AFRICAN SLAVE ROUTES + CONTEMPORARY BLACK CULINARY RECLAMATION + ITALIAN REGIONAL DEEP