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In addition to what you can see here👆👀 — June’s also Cucumber 🥒 Month… Mango 🥭 Month… Fresh Fruit🍓 & Veg 🥕 Month… Iced Tea 🧋 Month… Lemon 🍋 Month… There’s Pollinator 🌻🐝 Week (June 16–22), Juneteenth of course (June 19) … and did I already mention it’s SOOOUUUL FOOD MONTH the whole time?! 😋🧑🏾🍳🥘🔥
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Tonya, aka “The Food Griot”
Tonya Hopkins, founder of The Food Griot LLC, is a culinary historian, published author, food media personality + show host & writer featured in and on a range of broadcast networks and mediums. As a seasoned food and drink professional, Tonya stirs several pitchers and pots in hospitality arenas as a beverage curator, legacy cook and consultant, who creates contextual, culturally-relevant menus and custom-designed drinks that elevate any occasion. In addition to working in strategic sales in the restaurant, food & beverage, wine & spirits retail industries, Ms. Hopkins is a sought-after spirited speaker/nonfiction storyteller, public educator…
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SFA’s Gravy podcast episode, ““America’s Lost Peanut and the Price of Bringing it Back,””, produced by Otis Gray delves into the revival of the Carolina African Runner Peanut—an audio story inspired by a particular part of chapter 8 of Sarah’s book,Endangered Eating— i.e., Sarah’s conversation with Tonya Hopkins, aka “The Food Griot”. In the end of that chapter Tonya talks with Sarah and makes a powerful point about the complicated intersections of power, privilege and preservation…and served as a primary spark for the creation of this Gravy Podcast episode.