Quote of the day
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
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)