BRYANT TERRY

Session host: Bryant Terry, award-winning eco chef, food justice activist, and author.

His current work can be traced back to his childhood in Memphis, Tennessee where his grandparents inspired him to grow, cook, and appreciate food. His work and recipes have been featured in Gourmet, Food and Wine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vibe, Domino, Mothering, and many other publications. Called ingenious by The New York Times Magazine, his critically acclaimed first book, “Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen”(Tarcher/Penguin, 2006), written with Anna Lapp (forward by Eric Schlosser) is a winner of a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change.

TheRoot.com is the home of Bryant’ s popular column “Eco-Soul Kitchen,” where he offers thoughts, recipes, and practical tools and tips for eating and living sustainably. Bryant has made dozens of national radio and television appearances including being an expert commentator on the Sundance Channel’s original series “Big Ideas for a Small Planet.” Bryant is a host on “The Endless Feast,” a 13-episode PBS series that explores the connection between the earth and the food on our plates, and he is an on-screen expert for the “Nourish: Food + Community” PBS special that will air Fall 2008.

Bryant is currently a Food and Society Policy Fellow, a national program of the WK Kellogg and Fair Food Foundations. He graduated from the Chef’ s Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City, and he holds an M.A. in American History from New York University, where he studied under Robin D. G. Kelley. Bryant is working on his next book, which will be published by Da Capo/Perseus in 2009.