An Evening with Bryant Terry & Korsha Wilson
Explore creativity and social practice with award-winning chef, author, and artist Bryant Terry. In a conversation moderated by lauded food writer Korsha Wilson, we'll hear about Terry's multi-disciplinary work and enjoy bites inspired by his journey.
In addition to his latest release as an editor, The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025, we'll have Terry's other bestselling books including Black Food, Vegetable Kingdom, and Afro-Vegan. Join us for the discussion and get copies signed and personalized in time for the holiday season.
More about the book
“These stories remind us that food is not just fuel, nor is travel just movement,” writes Terry in his introduction. “They are acts of remembrance, resistance, and connection.”
The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 embodies this wisdom, offering an incredible range of stories that refine and revitalize our relationship to taste, place, and the narratives that we build around them. From tracing the history and endurance of heirloom Laotian rice to investigating how foraging is transforming a city’s restaurant culture, to meditating on the significance of Indigenous communities reclaiming their ancestral lands, these works reveal how food and travel are never simply about what’s on the plate or where we go—they are about history, identity, and the power of storytelling itself.
More about the participants
bryant terry is a multidisciplinary artist, chef, publisher, and author. His studio practice bridges cooking, sculpture, sound, video, and social practice to explore resilience, cultural memory, and liberation. As founder and editor-in-chief of 4 Color Books, he collaborates with visionary creatives of color to produce visually stunning nonfiction books.
terry's achievements in the publishing world include authoring five highly acclaimed cookbooks, editing and curating an anthology, Black Food, and serving as the editor of The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025. His work has earned him prestigious honors, including a James Beard Award, an NAACP Image Award, and an Art of Eating Prize. His book Black Food received widespread praise and was hailed as the most critically acclaimed American cookbook of 2021.
terry is the recipient of numerous grants and residencies and completed an MFA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley in 2025. He holds an MA in History from NYU and received his culinary training at the Natural Gourmet Institute.
Korsha Wilson is a food journalist and the host/founder of A Hungry Society, a media company and podcast that takes a more inclusive and diverse look at the food world. She has written for numerous publications including the New York Times, Eater, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine Magazine and was included in 2020’s Best American Food Writing anthology. She is a 2019 Southern Foodways Alliance Smith fellow and was part of Jack Jones Literary Arts’ inaugural #Culture,Too fellowship. Korsha is also the co-author of Ghana to the World: Recipes and Stories That Look Forward While Honoring the Past with chef Eric Adjepong released this year.
More about BEM
BEM Cultural Foundation (BCF) is the sibling nonprofit to BEM | books & more, a bookstore and culinary hub dedicated to global Black foodways and storytelling.
Established in 2025, BCF creates programs and experiences that deepen the public’s knowledge of Black culinary and literary traditions across the diaspora. BCF prioritizes communal gatherings, creating space to celebrate and explore Black food through literature while serving as a home for readers, writers, cooks, and eaters passionate about Black cultures in all their diversity.