Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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)