a conversation with Therese Nelson
Therese Nelson is a chef, writer, culinary historian, and founder of Black Culinary History.com, a website and social network she founded in 2008 as a way to preserve Black heritage throughout the African culinary diaspora, to celebrate and network chefs of color, and to steward in this next era of modern black foodways.
She is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University where she earned dual degrees in culinary arts and restaurant management. In addition to her work curating blackculinaryhistory.com Therese works as a private chef based in NYC and is a frequent contributor to food publications focusing on black identity in American gastronomy.
