On this week’s edition of Untitled Producer Malika Lee Whitney will be joined by NYU Professor Scott Alves Barton, Culinary Historian, Chef and Educator. The discussion centers around The New School program Culinary Luminaries: Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor. The Online/Zoom presentation takes place 4:00pm-5:30pm EDT May 4, 2021.
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor was a writer, actor, culinary anthropologist and longtime NPR contributor. Her first book, Vibration Cooking: Or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, was published in 1970 and addressed her growing interest in Afro-Atlantic foodways, culinary history, and Gullah-Geechee culture. Other books include Thursdays and Every Other Sunday: A Domestic Rap,Vertamae Cooks in the Americas’ Family Kitchen and Vertamae Cooks Again. She also wrote for several major periodicals and appeared on the PBS television series Seasonings
Patrick Dougher is a visual artist, musician, poet and actor. He has performed and recorded with an impressive list of marquee artists including Sade, Steel Pulse’s David Hinds, Michael Rose formerly of Black Uhuru, and Chuck D of Public Enemy. An art therapist who has served as the Program Director of Groundswell overseeing hundreds of community murals and Interim Director of BRIC Arts Media. Patrick Dougher's work celebrates the noble and spiritual nature of people of African descent.
Michel Marriott is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He has written about technology for the New York Times Circuits section and other print media. Michel Marriott is author of The Skull Cage Key. Currently he facilitates the Memoir writing series and edited the current Spring Summer issue for African Voices Magazine.