Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
![Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor](/img/nopic_profile.png)
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)