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THREE GREAT BLACK CHEFS

Bryant Terry

Oakland, California-based chef and author Bryant Terry is on a mission to make sure people everywhere, including low-income communities, are inspired to make healthy eating choices. The self-described “food justice activist,” who calls Alice Waters his mentor, hosts a web series, Urban Organic, and has authored four books on Afro-vegan cooking.

B. Smith

Barbara “B.” Smith made a name for herself in the 1970s as the first black model to grace the cover of Mademoiselle. But she became a lifestyle icon thanks to her contemporary Southern cookbooks, three restaurants, and an advocacy for healthy living. In 2012 she became a culinary ambassador for the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Culinary Partnership, and worked with Ready Pac to bring culturally diverse food to the Armed Forces. How many ex-models have done that?

Govind Armstrong

What happens when you’re born in Inglewood to an Indian–Costa Rican mother and an African-American father, raised on the Caribbean shores of Costa Rica, and cherry-picked to apprentice with Wolfgang Puck at the tender age of 13? You’re destined to become a successful chef with the unique culinary perspective of Govind Armstrong. The dreadlocked chef has become famous for market-driven comfort food, thanks to his LA restaurants 8oz Burger Bar, Post & Beam, and Willie Jane, and a cookbook, Small Bites, Big Nights.