Bryant Terry

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Bryant Terry – cookbook author, chef, food activist, conceptual artist and publisher – joins Michele at his University of California Berkeley art studio to discuss one of the biggest influences behind all of his work: his grandmother, Margie Bryant; or, as his family affectionately called her, Ma’dear. In Ma’dear’s Memphis, Tennessee kitchen, Bryant spent hours helping her shell peas, peel potatoes or pour sugar into the pot for her sweet fruit preserves. It was in her kitchen that Bryant learned how Ma’dear’s love for her family came in the form of what she made there, and it's that love that stays with Bryant today and drives his work.

When Bryant is not penning one of his acclaimed cookbooks, like his most recent work, Black Food, he is touring the country, educating Americans about the ways in which our food system is broken, how we as consumers can make choices that help local producers and farmers get the resources they need to continue their valuable work, and about what many of us often get wrong about Black Food – a cuisine that is far more varied, healthy and complex than many people are led to believe.

In this episode, Bryant recounts how a very specific 90s hip hop song led him to veganism, he shares his recipe for Ma’dear’s savory, slow-cooked leafy greens, and he sings the haunting, beautiful song Ma’dear would sing as she cooked them down until they were meltingly tender.

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1:05.0	I think it's easy for me to romanticize the time that I spent in my grandfather's
1:18.0	backyard urban farm and my grandmother's kitchen and her kitchen garden, but it was labor.
1:24.4	So because I don't know if it was necessarily fun shelling peas and sucking corn and
1:29.2	weeding in the garden and harvesting the vegetables.
1:32.7	But I do, when I ruminate on those moments,
1:36.3	I feel happy and so I have to believe that it was joyous
1:40.8	and I think it was more about spending time with my grandparents and be able to connect with them.
1:48.3	Welcome to your mama's kitchen, the podcast where we explore how the kitchens of our youth shape who we become as adults.
1:55.3	I'm Michelle Norris, and in today's episode we're joined by Bryant Terry.
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