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Celebrate Black History Month on a full stomach Black-owned restaurants to support in Gainesville Graphic of Black-owned restaurants in Gainesville Photo by Aubrey Bocalan | The Independent Florida Alligator Food, culture and community-building are indivisibl...

How did The Underground Kitchen and The Underground Kitchen Community First get started? Sparks: My [partner] and I moved from New York [in 2009]. I was in fashion for many years — I was with Louis Vuitton. When we moved to Richmond, we didn’t know anybody here. We did like every good New Yorker does and started throwing dinner parties. That’s how The Underground Kitchen started. In the eight, nine, 10 years since it’s been developed, it’s always celebrated chefs of color and women wh...