Cooking with Bryant Terry

Slow Food Portland Presents Cooking with Bryant Terry

In 2002, while studying the history of the Black Panthers’ free-breakfast programs, Bryant Terry became interested in how social injustices are reflected in urban food access, and he began thinking about how to use cooking to affect change. After founding the youth food initiative, b-healthy! (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help Youth), Terry co-authored Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen with Anna Lappé. As a 2008–2009 Food and Society Policy Fellow, Terry has initiated the Southern Organic Kitchen Project, which works to re-create the foodways of traditional Southern and soul cooking in a healthy way. In his work and cooking, Bryant Terry is a tireless advocate for restoring the kitchen culture of under-served and excluded communities.

With spoken-word poetry from Po’Shines Cafe de la Soul

Ingredients generously donated by New Seasons and Pastaworks.