Media We Love
This is a running list of the Black food podcasts we love, TV and web series we adore, and the deep-cut YouTube videos we’ve curated or hosted over the years.
If there is content you love that you think should be included please feel free to Contact US to have it added.
Podcasts, Blogs, & Other Media
This is a collection of content from around the internet and TV we adore, these creators are smart, deeply entrenched in Black foodways, and offer unique perspectives that we admire and follow.
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You can't talk about food podcast without talking about Nicole A. Taylor and her iconic Hot Grease. One of the flagship programs for Heritage Radio's Hot Grease was innovative, groundbreaking, and foundational to everything that would come after. The archive is still available via Heritage Radio, so please check it out and follow Nicole on all socials to see that she's up to currently
A podcast on all things African food! Host Yorm Ackuaku is the founder of esSense 13, a platform dedicated to raising the profile of African food globally through interactive online and offline experiences. Item 13: An African Food Podcast celebrates the stories of African food entrepreneurs around the world.
Heritage Radio Archive is once again on this list with Dr. Jessica B. Harris' show My Welcome Table where she took her audience on a journey of the foods and cultures of different cities across the African diaspora that framed her scholarship.
A special project of the Heinz corporation, the Black Kitchen Initiative supports and highlights the work of Black food creatives with grants and infrastructure to help amplify their work. The record of that work is their multilayered media projects that is both podcast and video series that tells the stories of the creatives they support.
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The brainchild of the brilliant Ozoz Sokoh (@KitchenButterfly) Feast Afrique is part blog, part digital library, part research hub for everything African culinary diaspora. Her library currently lists 240+ digitally available books and collections, referenced in The Jemima Code and more, from 1828 to the present day. This is the place to find out of print deep dive reference material from all over the globe.
In 1999 the Food Timeline was created and maintained solely by Lynne Olver, a reference librarian with a passion for food history. She sadly passed away in 2015. Eventually in 2020 Virginia Tech University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences (CLAHS) collaborated on a plan to offer Virginia Tech as a new home for the physical book collection and the web resource.
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Netflix series hosted by Stephen Satterfield that illuminated the book of the same name written by Dr. Jessica B. Harris about the origins of Black foodways in America. Check out our guided reader to dig beyond the series.
YouTube Playlists
Food Writers & Historians
This is a collection of the writers, thinkers, and scholars who offer us insight and context for the depth and breadth of Black foodways.
Chefs We Love
This is a collection of videos featuring the chefs and creatives who shape Black foodways across the African diaspora. In other lists on our YouTube channel, you can find playlists for the activists and makers we love.
In Conversation
This is a collection of the talks we’ve hosted in collaboration with groups like the Schomburg Center, Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD), and AfroPunk.