The final installment of RISD’s
African Food and Culture series focuses on the African Alliance of Rhode Island’s newly expanded Bami Farm.
“When I cook the food I grew up with in Jamaica, I can feel my mother and my grandmother with me,” says Brown University alumna
Lauren Campbell. “Food connects you when there’s no longer physical contact with your homeland.”
“When I cook the food I grew up with in Jamaica, I can feel my mother and my grandmother with me.”
Lauren Campbell
Campbell spoke in early May as part of a virtual community conversation focused on African food and culture. Moderated by Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture