FOOD & WINE Magazine’s special Holiday Double Issue (Dec2024 -Jan2025) celebrates“Holidays Around The World…” and serves up “11 Delicious Ways o Celebrate This Holiday Season” via a range of deliciously diverse recipes & personal essays. The piece I wrote is called: “Kwanzaa: Seven Days of Celebration Offer Endless Opportunities for Connection and Creativity” which you’ll find on pages 184 - 185 in the print edition and/or you can read it ONLINE with the title of: "“How I Use Kwanzaa's Seven Principles to Transform My Holiday Cooking…” by Tonya Hopkins, aka The Food Griot, for FOOD & WINE Magazine….
Read MoreThis April 2024 calendar collage gives you just a glimpse of some of the food, drink, cultural, historical and sometimes personal “holidays” happening this month that I think are interesting and suspect you will too. Especially if I happen to have taken good pics relevant to the topic or in some cases have a boatload of food or beverage beauty shots I snapped and saved over the years and wanna show 'em off (i mean SHARE them ;) with you for the visual side of the storytelling. On a more serious note, I check a lot of sources to compile this TFG calendar and am more often than not startled by the blatant “lies of omission” so many mainstream ‘daily holiday’ calendar platforms perpetuate. Outright exclusions of entire cultures, ethnicities, historical facts! ... serving up only slivers of the story. Which is a big part of my motivation for doing this one…
Read MoreCheck Out TFG's Culinary & Cultural Calendar for Fab Foodie Reasons to Celebrate Something (almost!) Every Single Day…
Read MoreCelebrate The Season of Remembrance! Spirited Storytelling + Flavorful Food, Drink, History & Cultural Connections: Strolling & Sampling Through The Slope…
Read MoreThe Sidecar was my signature drink once upon a time — the ‘Hennessy Sidecar’ to be precise — back when that category-leading cognac was instrumental in helping revitalize trendy Americans interest in rediscovering (and more importantly consuming) “classic cocktails”. Hennessy was also the main account I was assigned to at the then-called Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners / KB&P (advertising agency) in the late 90’s early 2000’s….
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