Two new books put the focus (back) on Black pitmasters and their barbecue
Scholar Adrian Miller's "Black Smoke" and pitmaster Rodney Scott's new cookbook remind us about the important, and often ignored, role of Black people in American barbecue.
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Scholar Adrian Miller's "Black Smoke" and pitmaster Rodney Scott's new cookbook remind us about the important, and often ignored, role of Black people in American barbecue.
*( LOS ANGELES) – For centuries, the creations and innovations of Blacks in America have been culturally appropriated — case in point, the true history of barbecue’s culinary origins. In his new book, “ Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue,” James Beard Award winning author Adrian Miller reclaims a celebrated African American tradition and reinforces barbecue as an important Black cultural contribution to American cuisine. Black Smoke is a delectable Black History lesson that takes a scholarly approach to tracing the evolution of barbecue in America. Fro...
Digital Video Series “Cooking with Kiya: Two-Minute Techniques” Launches April 8 on CreateTV.com Boston, MA, April 08, 2021 --(PR.com)-- American Public Television (APT), the original home to public television’s culinary experts and sponsor of the Create Cooking Challenge, announced the premiere of a 10-part short-form digital video series from contest Grand Prize Winner Kiya Schnorr. Selected from a nationwide pool of entries by judges who are among public television’s best known chefs, "Cooking with Kiya: Two-Minute Techniques" will release one episode weekly for 10 weeks on Creat...
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