The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. When journalist and activist Toni Tipton-Martin amassed close to 400 cookbooks chronicling a culinary ...

For decades, many of the techniques, flavors, and philosophies that shaped American cuisine were quietly rooted in African American kitchens. These traditions were shaped by necessity, creativity, and ...

Visit any region of the United States, and you'll find Black American cuisine with historic and multinational roots. Some dishes are so indelible to American culture that the contributions of African ...

A nationally recognized chef and champion of African-American food with ties to Harrisburg has died. Chef Joe Randall, 79, known as the “Dean of Southern Cooking,” passed away Feb. 14 in Savannah, ...

He helped bring the African American cooking of the Carolina Lowcountry to the world and became known as the “dean of Southern Cuisine.” By Clay Risen Joe Randall, who as the widely acknowledged “dean ...

Freda DeKnight was Ebony's first food editor and author of a best-selling African-American cookbook in the 1940s. Her recipes presented a vision of black America that was often invisible in mainstream ...