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It s going to be a celebration of the Black diaspora, he tells
New Times. You have low country and Midwestern. You go down to Louisiana and there s Creole. There s even a Mexican mashup in the Mississippi Delta. The beauty of the International Black Food & Wine Festival is that there are so many cultures to highlight.
Smith, whose Hungry Black Man site covers Black cuisine in Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, Montgomery, and Orlando, as well as Miami, says that he was looking for a way to celebrate all those unique food styles. In Black culture, there are cooks and chefs and confectioners and influences that Black America loves. We have so much more than Marcus Samuelsson, he says, though he s quick to add that the chef and partner in Red Rooster Overtown is working hard to bring Black chefs to the forefront of the culinary scene.
South Beach Wine & Food Festival helps hurting restaurants
KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press
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MIAMI BEACH (AP) Some of the biggest celebrity chefs are in Miami this weekend for the annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival, including Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis and Martha Stewart. But behind the glamour and private dinners that can sell for as much as $500 a ticket, the festival has been quietly working behind the scenes to help restaurants struggling during the pandemic.
Last year s event, which fed more than 65,000 people at more than 100 events, was held just weeks before the COVID lockdown. Miami has long been a foodie town with hundreds of local chefs and restaurants contributing to the massive food festival.
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