An Introduction by Dr. Ashante Reese on behalf of the New York Knicks:
We partnered with God’s Love We Deliver, Charity partner of the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival, to collaborate with most of the chefs associated with this project. To learn more about this wonderful organization, please visit
www.glwd.org.
To celebrate Black History Month, we’re highlighting Black chefs who blend history, culture, and region into their menus alongside players who discuss their own food-related histories and memories.
Food is one of the most significant and enduring aspects of Black culture in the U.S. From the seeds enslaved Africans braided in their hair to transport to unknown lands to pound cakes and bean pies to Black-owned farms that support food equity, the foods Black people have prepared or grown create connection and speak back to the promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
A glimpse into Black food cultures is a gateway for understanding ingenuity, community, advocacy, and what it means to create meaningful cultural institutions that celebrate the beautiful diversity of Blackness.
Use the menu to learn more about the chefs and their player dishes. And check back throughout Black History Month for more.
We partnered with God’s Love We Deliver, Charity partner of the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival, to collaborate with most of the chefs associated with this project. To learn more about this wonderful organization, please visit
We partnered with God’s Love We Deliver, Charity partner of the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival, to collaborate with most of the chefs associated with this project. To learn more about this wonderful organization, please visit
Restaurant Directory
Duane Washington Jr.
Jacob Toppin
Coach Thibodeau
Jericho Sims
Mitchell Robinson
Walt "Clyde" Frazier
Dr. Ashanté Reese
Miles McBride
Josh Hart
Taj Gibson
Jalen Brunson
Alec Burks
Charlie Brown Jr.
OG Anunoby
Bojan Bogdanovic
Precious Achiuwa
Introduction
To celebrate Black History Month, we're highlighting Black chefs who blend history, culture, and region into their menus alongside players who discuss their own food-related histories and memories. Here's a conversation between New York Knicks guard Josh Hart and Harlem-based restauranteur, Melba Wilson.
To celebrate Black History Month, we're highlighting Black chefs who blend history, culture, and region into their menus alongside players who discuss their own food-related histories and memories. Here's a conversation between New York Knicks guard Josh Hart and Harlem-based restauranteur, Melba Wilson.
Restaurant Directory
Duane Washington Jr.
Jacob Toppin
Coach Thibodeau
Jericho Sims
Mitchell Robinson
Walt "Clyde" Frazier
Dr. Ashanté Reese
Miles McBride
Josh Hart
Taj Gibson
Jalen Brunson
Alec Burks
Charlie Brown Jr.
OG Anunoby
Bojan Bogdanovic
Precious Achiuwa
Introduction
To celebrate Black History Month, we’re highlighting Black chefs who blend history, culture, and region into their menus alongside players who discuss their own food-related histories and memories. Here’s a conversation between New York Knicks legend Walt “Clyde” Frazier and award-winning sportscaster Ahmad Rashad at Jacob Restaurant in Harlem, New York.
To celebrate Black History Month, we’re highlighting Black chefs who blend history, culture, and region into their menus alongside players who discuss their own food-related histories and memories. Here’s a conversation between New York Knicks legend Walt “Clyde” Frazier and award-winning sportscaster Ahmad Rashad at Jacob Restaurant in Harlem, New York.
Restaurant Directory
Duane Washington Jr.
Jacob Toppin
Coach Thibodeau
Jericho Sims
Mitchell Robinson
Walt "Clyde" Frazier
Dr. Ashanté Reese
Miles McBride
Josh Hart
Taj Gibson
Jalen Brunson
Alec Burks
Charlie Brown Jr.
OG Anunoby
Bojan Bogdanovic
Precious Achiuwa
Introduction
Dr. Ashanté Reese is a writer, anthropologist, and associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Animated by the question, ‘who and what survives?’ much of Dr. Reese’s research has focused on the everyday strategies Black people employ while navigating inequity. Her award-winning first book, Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C., takes up these
through an exploration of anti-Blackness, food access, and resistance in the nation’s capital. Her second book, Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, is a collection co-edited with Hanna Garth that explores the geographic, social, and cultural dimensions of food in Black life across the U.S.
Currently, Dr. Reese is working on two books. The first, Gather, explores the ways Black people gather in the midst of anti-Black violence to nourish ourselves and each other. Central to this exploration are the spaces that Black people imagine, create, and inhabit to mark their resilience and love for each other—often with food in tow. The second, The Carceral Life of Sugar, explores the spatial, economic, and metaphorical resonance of the plantation in the early 20th century convict lease system in Texas and the ongoing significance of sugar in everyday (Black) life.
Restaurant Directory
Duane Washington Jr.
Jacob Toppin
Coach Thibodeau
Jericho Sims
Mitchell Robinson
Walt "Clyde" Frazier
Dr. Ashanté Reese
Miles McBride
Josh Hart
Taj Gibson
Jalen Brunson
Alec Burks
Charlie Brown Jr.
OG Anunoby
Bojan Bogdanovic
Precious Achiuwa
Introduction
RESTAURANT DIRECTORY
Charles Pan-Fried Chicken
340 W 145th St., New York, NY 10039
Dakar Nola
3814 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70115
Branch Patty
43-46 10th St, Queens, NY 11101
Jerrell's BETR BRGR
17 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013
Charles Pan-Fried Chicken
Branch Patty
Dakar Nola
Jerrell's BETR BRGR
Branch Patty • 43-46 10th St, Queens, NY 11101
Charles Pan-Fried Chicken • 340 W 145th St., New York, NY 10039
Dakar Nola • 3814 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70115
Jerrell's BETR BRGR • 17 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013
Melba's Restaurant • 300 W 114th St, New York, NY 10026
Melba's Restaurant
Melba's Restaurant
300 W 114th St, New York, NY 10026
Clover Hill • 20 Columbia Place Brooklyn, New York 11201
Clover Hill
Clover Hill
20 Columbia Place, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Melba's Restaurant
300 W 114th St, New York, NY 10026
Cadence
111 E 7th St, New York, NY 10009
Cadence • 111 East 7th St, New York, NY 10009
Cadence
2 Girls & a Cookshop
2123 Caton Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226
2 Girls & a Cookshop • 2123 Caton Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226
2 Girls & a Cookshop
RESTAURANT DIRECTORY
Branch Patty
43-46 10th St, Queens, NY 11101
Charles Pan-Fried Chicken
340 W 145th St., New York, NY 10039
Dakar Nola
3814 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70115
Jerrell's BETR BRGR
17 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013
Melba's Restaurant
300 W 114th St, New York, NY 10026
Melba's Restaurant
300 W 114th St, New York, NY 10026
Clover Hill
20 Columbia Place, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Cadence
111 E 7th St, New York, NY 10009
2 Girls & a Cookshop
2123 Caton Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226
Jacob Restaurant
373 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027
Jacob Restaurant • 373 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027
Jacob Restaurant
FIELDTRIP • 109 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10026
FIELDTRIP
Kokomo • 65 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Kokomo
Dept of Culture • 327 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Dept of Culture
Kokomo
65 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Dept of Culture
327 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216
FIELDTRIP
109 Malcolm X Blvd. New York, NY 10026
Harlem Biscuit Company
2308 Adam Clayton Powell Junior Blvd.
New York, NY 10030
Harlem Biscuit Company • 2308 Adam Clayton Powell Junior Blvd, New York, NY 10030
Harlem Biscuit Company
LoLo's on the Water
25 11th Ave, New York, NY 10011
LoLo's on the Water • 25 11th Ave, New York, NY 10011
LoLo's on the Water
Restaurant Directory
Duane Washington Jr.
Jacob Toppin
Coach Thibodeau
Jericho Sims
Mitchell Robinson
Walt "Clyde" Frazier
Dr. Ashanté Reese
Miles McBride
Josh Hart
Taj Gibson
Jalen Brunson
Alec Burks
Charlie Brown Jr.
OG Anunoby
Bojan Bogdanovic
Precious Achiuwa
Introduction
