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Look out for new cookbooks from Molly Baz, J.J. Johnson, Sohla El-Waylly, deep dives into West African cooking, fresh new approaches to baking, and more.

Though meat dominates a number of the region’s most popular dishes, a growing number of cooks see adapting vegan and vegetarian diets as a way of embracing their heritage.

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Years ago, Salimatu Amabebe almost left the food world entirely. After working as a line cook in kitchens, they weren’t sure they could find a space that allowed them to live a healthy, fulfilled life. “It took me a while to understand that [cooking] was something I wanted to do as a career path, because I worked under people who were deeply unkind to me in a personal sense,” they say. Amabebe, 29, realized that if they made their own space, things could be different. These would be spac...

Meet the inspiring leaders using food to challenge conventions, empower their communities, and make positive change. America’s food culture is at a turning point. Pandemic-related shutdowns proved just how fragile the restaurant ecosystem has always been, while last summer’s protests put a spotlight on the work still needed to dismantle white supremacy in all aspects of American life, especially in an industry built on a history of racism and inequity. And addressing hunger, an everyday rea...

Soul food and Southern food are undeniably rooted in the African-American experience, but Black food in America can’t be defined by just these two categories. The movements that mark the African diaspora mean that Black culinary influence in this country is much farther ranging: Enslaved Africans brought with them crops and agricultural skills, which they adapted to the American South; later, African Americans migrated north and west, taking the culinary traditions they developed in the South...