Bryant Terry (born January 24, 1974) is an African-American vegan chef, food justice activist, and author. He has written four vegan cookbooks and cowrote a book about organic eating . He won a 2015 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award for his food justice work. In 2021 he was awarded an NAACP Image Award for his book Vegetable Kingdom , which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly .
21-561: Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes , often shortened to Vegetable Kingdom , is a 2020 cookbook by Bryant Terry . It received positive reviews and won an NAACP Image Award . Recipes are based on the cuisines of the African diaspora . The book provides a song pairing for each dish. For each recipe Bryant suggests a song pairing, which he calls the recipe's "soundtrack". The pairings include Cab Calloway’s " Jumpin Jive " with
42-517: A neonatal nurse , and Booker Terry, an environmental protection specialist. Terry grew up in Memphis, Tennessee . He attended Xavier University of Louisiana , graduating with a degree in English. He then moved to New York City to attend graduate school at New York University , where he earned an M.A. in history. While at NYU, after hearing a hip-hop song about factory farming, he switched to
63-571: A plant-based diet and started reading about early efforts to address food injustice. He then enrolled in the chef's training program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City. In 2001, Terry founded b-healthy! (Build Healthy Eating And Lifestyles To Help Youth), a five-year initiative created to raise awareness about food justice issues and empower youth to be active in creating
84-635: A little bit of this, taking a little bit of that, and remixing things." The recipes are vegan and based around the flavors of the African diaspora. The book was one of Splendid Table 's Spring Picks in 2020. It received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional . The New Yorker called it "a stylish, inspiring love letter" to cooking with vegetables. Joe Yonan , writing in The Washington Post , said "I can’t think of
105-550: A more just and sustainable food system . The program taught children in underserved neighborhoods how to cook in an afterschool program, sending the kids back home with their prepared foods to provide their family a meal. In 2002 he received a Community Fellowship from the Open Society Institute ( Soros Foundation ) to support b-healthy's work, in which he led chef-educators Ludie Minaya, Elizabeth Johnson, and Latham Thomas in reaching out to thousands of youth in
126-503: A recipe for stuffed peppers, “ Flat of the Blade ” from Massive Attack with a recipe for dirty cauliflower, and Solange’s “ Stay Flo ” with a recipe for mashed kabocha . Bryant, who comes from a musical family, has said he considers food and music inseparable and refers to his pairings as "cooking as collage". According to Francis Lam , Terry has said his "approach to cooking is inspired by hip-hop producers", which Lam describes as "taking
147-644: A retreat at the Esalen Institute , an early center of the human potential movement located in Big Sur, California . Receiving no interest from the New York publishing establishment in publishing books on these subjects he began his own publishing venture, and went on to publish bestselling books from many previously-unknown authors working on health, psychology, philosophy, and New Age spiritutality. They include Joy's Way by W. Brugh Joy; " Drawing on
168-420: A talk at the annual TEDMED conference on "Stirring up political change from the kitchen". In 2012 Terry was named to TheGrio's 100 list. In 2014 Afro-Vegan was listed as one of the best cookbooks of 2014 by Mother Jones (honorable mention) and Serious Eats . In 2015 Terry won a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award for his food justice work. He also received two additional nominations from
189-616: Is a book publisher and imprint of Penguin Group focused primarily on mind, body and spiritualism titles, founded in 1973 by Jeremy P. Tarcher in Los Angeles . (Tarcher was married to ventriloquist Shari Lewis , and his sister was novelist Judith Krantz ). Tarcher began his career in publishing in the early 1960s, putting together packaged book deals for celebrities such as Phyllis Diller , Johnny Carson , Zsa Zsa Gabor , Buddy Hackett , and Joan Rivers , but changed direction after
210-482: The James Beard Foundation . Terry's 2020 book Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional . In 2023, Tasting Table named Terry as one of the “21 Plant-Based Chefs You Need To Know.” and VegNews listed him as one of the "37 Creative Chefs Crafting
231-783: The Sundance Channel 's original series Big Ideas for a Small Planet . He has been a guest chef on three episodes of the BET series My Two Cents . Terry was also a host on the PBS series The Endless Feast . Terry is a consultant for the Bioneers Conference. He has helped raise funds for the People's Grocery in West Oakland , and he consults for other not-for-profit organizations as well as corporations. He appeared on
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#1732772885974252-754: The "Nourish: Food + Community" PBS special that aired in 2008, and he has also served on the advisory board for the project's educational component. From 2008 to 2010, Terry was a Food and Society Policy Fellow , a national program of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation . In 2015, Terry was named the inaugural Chef-in-Residence for the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2020 said of Terry that he had "dedicated much of his life to educating others about sustainable agriculture and healthy eating through
273-594: The Future of Vegan Food." In 2024, VegNews also listed Terry as one of the "17 Black Vegan Chefs Redefining Plant-Based Food and Community." VegNews listed Afro-Vegan as one of the "Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time" in 2024. Terry married Jidan Koon, an organizational development consultant, in September 2010. They reside in Oakland, California , with their children. TarcherPerigee TarcherPerigee
294-648: The Right Side of the Brain " by Betty Edwards ; Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class by hot yoga guru Bikram Choudhury ; the English translation of Austrian mountaineer and Nazi SS sergeant Heinrich Harrer 's Seven Years in Tibet (originally published in German in the 1940s); and The Aquarian Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson . He "discovered" many of these authors through his ongoing relationship with Michael Murphy ,
315-467: The United States. In the spring of 2003, Terry met author Anna Lappé . That fall they began writing a Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen ( ISBN 1585424595 ), which was soon bought by Tarcher / Penguin and published in 2006. Grub received a 2007 Nautilus Book Award for Social Change. Among his national radio and television appearances, Terry has offered his commentary on
336-608: The co-founder of Esalen Institute, who also published several books with Tarcher and served on the board of Esalen for years. Over the years the company expanded to include nonfiction books of all types. Putnam purchased the company in 1991, and the offices were moved to New York. Tarcher remained head of the company until early 1996, when Joel Fotinos was named publisher. The firm merged with sister imprint Perigee to form TarcherPerigee in 2015. Tarcher died in Los Angeles in 2015 from complications of Parkinson's disease . He
357-501: The field of 'success literature' TarcherPerigee publishes authors such as Napoleon Hill , Michael Muhammad Knight , Wallace D. Wattles , Dale Carnegie , and James Allen. Among the imprint's authors in the field of mind, body, and spiritualism are Robin Norwood , Stephen Mansfield , Betty Edwards , Heinrich Harrer , Marilyn Ferguson (author of The Aquarian Conspiracy ), Bikram Choudhury, and Jim Knipfel . This article about
378-483: The last time I marked this many dishes to try, the very first time I flipped through a book." It was named to several "best of" lists, including The New Yorker , The Washington Post , San Francisco Chronicle , Food & Wine , and Vogue . VegNews named Vegetable Kingdom one of the "Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time" in 2024. The hardcover and ebook were released by Penguin on February 11, 2020. Bryant Terry Terry's parents are Beatrice Terry,
399-759: The lens of the African Diaspora." Ten Speed Press announced in 2021 that Terry would start an imprint called 4 Color Books focused on writers of color. Terry's writing and recipes have been featured in Gourmet , Food & Wine , The New York Times Magazine , the San Francisco Chronicle , Vibe , Domino , Mothering , Plenty , Delicious Living , and other print magazines. He has contributed to ABC.com and TheRoot.com among others. His column on The Root , "Eco-Soul Kitchen", offers thoughts, recipes, tools, and tips for sustainable eating and living. His essay, "Reclaiming True Grits",
420-427: Was 83. TarcherPerigee publications cover a broad spectrum of topics in the areas of wellness, self-improvement, spirituality, esoterica, occultism, creativity, social consciousness, prosperity, and more. Recent bestsellers include 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl , Ultramarathon Man , The Dumbest Generation , The Wonder of Boys , Energy Medicine , The Power of Kindness , and Think & Grow Rich. In
441-514: Was widely circulated on the web and sparked heated debate about " soul food ". Distinguishing traditional soul food the "instant soul food" that began emerging in the late 1960s, Terry wrote: "Sadly, over the past four decades most of us have forgotten that what many African Americans in the South ate for dinner just two generations ago was diverse, creative, and comprised of a lot of fresh, local, and homegrown nutrient-dense food." In 2015, Terry gave
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