Quote of the day
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

Born: 1938
Died: September 3, 2016 (aged 78)
Bio: Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor was an American culinary anthropologist, griot, food writer, and broadcaster on public media. Born into a Gullah family in the Low Country of South Carolina, she moved with them as a child to Philadelphia during the Great Migration.
Known for:
- Vibration Cooking (2011)
- Black Atlantic Cooking (1990)