Bahia, Brooklyn, New Orleans, Marthaâs Vineyard, and Paris are the places sheâs called home. Erudite, wickedly funny, and droll describe her personality. Who are we talking about?
None other than the culinary historian Jessica B. Harris, Ph.D.âfounding member of the Southern Foodways Alliance, a member of Les Dames dâEscoffier, a professional society championing women in culinary fields, an award-winning journalist, podcaster, and author of over a dozen deeply researched books and too many articles to count. (If youâre looking for something that goes down like butter, check out her memoir,
My Soul Looks Back, filled with tales about her adventures in New Yorkâs Greenwich Village with friends James Baldwin and Maya Angelou.)