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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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)