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Serving Up: Essays on food, identity and culture is a collection of essays from food writers around the globe sharing their culinary journeys and examining how food forms part of their culture and identity.
Celebrated chef and activist, Zoe Adjonyoh has curated an extraordinary range of voices from the food industry: chefs, journalists, recipe developers, community organisers, podcast producers, activists, educators and historians to be a part of Serving Up: Essays on food, culture and identity.
Yoshivel Elise Chrinos explores the treatment of food in Latinx cinema, while Apoorva Sripathi writes about inheritance in food and identity. Lee Tran Lam discovers Sydney's vibrant vegan food scene, and Lenore Adkinsexposes cultural appropriation in food. We also have Abigail Koffler's story of Hamantaschen, Tiffani Rozier investigating the parallels between food and grief, and Cynthia Greenlee's incredible ode to the humble hot dog.
They join Samah Dada, Chris Nigro, Izzie Ramirez, Fatima Tarkleman, Hassel Aviles, Duron Chavis, Vanessa Parish, Mavis-Jay Sanders, Scott Alves Barton, Selasie Dotse and Tambra Raye Stevenson in this book, which features a foreword from best-selling and award-winning author,Yasmin Khan.
An anthology to inspire and provoke, Serving Up: Essay on food, culture and identitybrings together twenty global writers together into a rousing call on how and why food matters.
Image credits: Design by Mecob. Book designs, cover and other images are for illustrative purposes and may differ from final design.
Zoe Adjonyoh is a chef, writer, entrepreneur and founder of Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen. Zoe has been pioneering modern West African food in the forms of supper clubs (London, Berlin, New York, Accra, Wales), her own restaurant in Brixton, pop-ups, street food and events since 2010. In 2017 she released her debut cookbook - Zoe's Ghana Kitchen, which is now set to be republished and released in the US, Fall 2021.
Zoe’s mission as always been to bring the great flavours of West Africa to a wider audience and this has been acknowledged through great positive press and publicity for our food and concept, being named as one of 'London’s hottest chefs' by Time Out and being named one of 'The 44 Best Female Chefs' by Hachette Cuisine France. She was honored at the James Beard Foundation In New York and given the Iconoclast Award in 2018 and in February 2019, she was invited to speak at TEDXOxford about Food: Its Importance to Cultural Stepping Stones of Understanding & Exchange.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoe converted her entire catering operation into a community kitchen to feed those most impacted by the pandemic (including the NHS staff) in her East London community of Hackney - serving 500 meals per week out of her home. In April 2020, Zoe launched Black Book Global, a representation agency and platform for POC in the food industry. Zoe has just released her new podcast ‘Cooking Up Consciousness’ and is currently launching a new business ‘Zoe’s Spice House’ which is set to debut in 2022. Most recently, Zoe has joined the board at ‘The New American Table’.
15th March 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Riana Lynn!
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Title: 'Food Innovation and the inclusivity economy: Solving food with technology from Silicon Valley to Africa'
Synopsis: A look at how Africa and technology will shape the futue of food.
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14th March 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Yoshivel Elise Chirinos!
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Title: 'Un Asiento En La Mesa: Musings on Food and Appropriation in Cinema'
Synopsis: An essay on food and cultural appropriation in cinema. It would explore the depiction and treatment of food and the act of eating in films such as Chef, Tortilla Soup, Beatriz at Dinner…
11th March 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Thérèse Nelson!
Introducing Thérèse Nelson - one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'Starving at a Full Table. An essay interrogating the sacrifices I’ve made to work as a chef and the lessons I’ve learned that saved my life.'
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9th March 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Tambra Raye Stevenson!
Introducing Tambra Raye Stevenson- one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'Serving up Sisterhood: The Power of Food, Feminism, and Forks'
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2nd March 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Scott Alves Barton!
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Title: 'Eatplaces: Two Tables Talk of Yesterdays'
Synopsis: My family nuclear family integrated a community just after I was born. They fought to move the neighbors and city hall to move in. Only a few people would sell to a Black family. I grew up in the pink house on the hill…
28th February 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Reem Assil!
Introducing Reem Assil - one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'Makloubeh: The food of our nation without a nation state'
Synopsis: Exploring homeland food when homeland is denied. Irony of the Palestinian experience. Every makloubeh is different but unites every Palestinian.
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17th February 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Mavis-Jay Sanders!
Introducing Mavis-Jay Sanders - one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'Whispers of trade aside the group chat'
Synopsis: Can any leader be without reproach? A personal exploration of the compromises and casualties experienced by intersectional identifying humans on the road to influence. Questioning complicity and ignorance of community in…
14th February 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Lenore Adkins!
Introducing Lenore Adkins - one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'Cultural appropration in the restaurant industry'
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10th February 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Lee Tran Lam!
Introducing Lee Tran Lam - one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'Was Anthony Bourdain wrong about vegan food?'
Synopsis:"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn." Bourdain famously dismissed non-meat-eaters for being killjoys with weak immune systems, and being…
3rd February 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Cynthia Greenlee!
Introducing Cynthia Greenlee - one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'Some days, I am charcuterie. Some days, I am hot dogs.'
Synopsis: By some trick of professionalism and class mobility, I have found myself as a "food writer" — though I don't define myself that way (rather, I'm a historian and journalist who writes about Black culture and…
27th January 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Izzie Ramirez!
Introducing Izzie Ramirez one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'The Food Talent Pipeline: What it means to develop and train young people in food media'
Synopsis: Food media is notorious for being too white, male, and cis — a reflection of the very people who hold institutional and structural power. But what does it mean to shift that structure…
24th January 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Hassel Aviles
Introducing Hassel Aviles one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'Psychological safety in culture and hospitality'
Synopsis: Learning how to operate against cultural and hospitality workplace norms to improve mental health. A personal story on moving from stigma and intergenerational trauma to developing a practice of seeking and accepting…
21st January 2022Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Fatima Tarkleman!
Introducing Fatima Tarkleman one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: '"It's too spicy", and other such bulls**t; disrupting inequalities in hospitality and food publishing'
Synopsis: Coming from a healthcare background where care and collaboration are at the centre of its ethos, the unregulated world of hospitality was a gigantic culture shock…
22nd December 2021Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Ashtin Berry!
Introducing Ashtin Berry, one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
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Title: 'Wealth management - how empires are built by the glass'
Synopsis: An investigation around how liquor was a major tool of colonization and how policies were built to make the beverage industry a wealth building industry exclusively for colonizers.
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17th December 2021Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Abigail Koffler!
Introducing Abigail Koffler, one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'Hamantaschen and the experience of being mocked in the paper of record for commenting on a disparing recipe'
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16th December 2021Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Arianne "A E" Persaud!
Introducing Arianne “A E” Persaud, one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'On Pride and Shame: how cooking Seven Curry with my mother helped me reconcile my queer and cultural identities'
Synopsis: As a mixed-race Guyanese person who is also gender non-conforming, holding multiple marginalized identities can be daunting, especially when these…
15th December 2021Contributor Spotlight: Introducing Apoorva Sripathi!
Introducing Apoorva Sripathi, one of our amazing contributors for the #ServingUp #crowdfunder w/ @unbounders!
Title: 'On inheritances in food and identity'
Synopsis: Growing up with notions of purity related to food shaped my worldview. My journey to discovering nuance in both the consumption of and writing about food, and a refusal of "inheritances" that have come to shape who I am, detailed…
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