This year’s keynote speaker and presenter Bryant Terry is an award-winning chef, food justice activist, and critically acclaimed author fighting for a more just and sustainable food system.

Groundbreaking and rich, his work illuminates the intersections that exist today between poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity, in order to pave a new, better path forward.

In his 2021 book, Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes From Across The African Diaspora, Bryant offers a stunning and deeply heartfelt tribute to Black culinary ingenuity, capturing the broad and divergent voices of the African diaspora in a way that’s never been done before.

As he told NPR in 2021, the cookbook is a “communal shrine to the shared culinary histories of the African diaspora.”

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Here, Bryant Terry discusses his book Black Food on the the TV show CBS Mornings on Oct. 29, 2021: