Bryant Terry

Chef, educator, and author, Museum of the African Diaspora; Oakland, CA

Bryant Terry is a James Beard award-winning chef, educator, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. Since 2015 he has been the chef-in-residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, where he creates public programming at the intersection of food, farming, health, activism, art, culture, and the African Diaspora. San Francisco magazine included Bryant among “11 Smartest People in the Bay Area Food Scene”, and Fast Company named him one of “9 People Who Are Changing the Future of Food”. Vegetable Kingdom, Bryant’s fifth book, will be published by Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House in February 2020. His last book, Afro-Vegan, published in 2014, and was named one of the best cookbooks of that year by Amazon, and was nominated for an NAACP Award for outstanding literary work. Bryant is also the author of the critically acclaimed Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine, which was named one of the best vegetarian/vegan cookbooks of the last 25 years by Cooking Light magazine. Bryant graduated from the chef’s training program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City. He is a PhD dropout who holds an MA in history with an emphasis on the African diaspora from New York University, where he studied under historian Robin DG Kelly. He lives in Oakland, CA, with his wife and two brilliant and beautiful daughters. (Oakland, CA) @bryantterry