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Black Desserts

Black Food Folks

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Frequency: 1 episode/27d. Total Eps: 13

Black Food Folks presents a limited series focusing on the life and work of Black pastry chefs. The series will focus on a diverse collective of chefs, bakers, chocolatiers, and educators to explore their career paths and the historical context in which they do their work.

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🇩🇪 Germany - food
17/10/2025
#93
🇩🇪 Germany - food
16/10/2025
#64
🇩🇪 Germany - food
15/10/2025
#45

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Baking Legacy

Season 2 · Episode 6

Wednesday, January 26, 2022 • Duration 33:32

Family and nostalgia are the core of Black baking traditions and show up in recipes as a cultural heirloom. Nowhere else is this more vividly displayed than in the soul food restaurant and the proprietors who keep these traditions alive. In this episode, I talk with baker and owner of Bomb Biscuits Atlanta Erika Council (@erikajcouncil), the granddaughter of legendary chef and restaurateur Mrs. Mildred 'Mama Dip' Council, about how she and her family handles preserving their matriarch's legacy.

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The Light & Shade of Black Nostalgia

Season 2 · Episode 5

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 • Duration 42:03

The world of desserts can feel indulgent and decadent in ways that overlook the practical impact our cultural relationships with food have on our lives. The joy and celebration, the emotional connection and comfort in good and bad times our dessert traditions have are as much an heirloom as the recipes themselves so on this episode I talk with wellness coach Shelley Chapman (@shelleywellness) founder of the Mindful Plate youtube series and the Body Food Freedom nutrition and wellness coaching practice about the importance of naming and clarifying our emotional relationships with food and pastry chef and end of life doula Dr. Monica O’Connell (@mimi_oconnell) about how she is using the symbolism and emotional connection to cakes to interrogate end of life care for patients and families.

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Just Desserts

Season 1 · Episode 2

Thursday, April 8, 2021 • Duration 53:30

Don't be fooled by how easy they make it look...

Training is a factor that is debated throughout the food world and has as much to do with relative success as any other factor. From formal training to community-sourced apprenticeship rigor and technique are critical ingredients that each chef has to find for themselves. In this episode, Therese talks with guests about the training that makes them each the technicians they are and the role their training has played in their imaginations around career possibility.

Guests on this episode are Kimberly Brock Brown, Jessica Craig, and Mame Sow.

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Origin Story

Season 1 · Episode 1

Thursday, March 25, 2021 • Duration 01:01:37

We start at the beginning...

On this episode, Therese talks with guests about how they fell in love with desserts. What inspires them, where they trained, and whether the reality of the careers they’ve built for themselves lives up to their initial ideas. Guests on this episode include Erika Dupree, Tavel Bristol-Joseph, and Camari Mick.

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Tavel Bristol Jospeh Best New Chef profile

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Extended Trailer

Season 1

Thursday, March 11, 2021 • Duration 18:39

Black Food Folks is an organization founded by Clay Wiliams and Colleen Vincent to connect Black food creatives in tangible ways. Through Covid-19 the organization has strengthened and grown and has an eye toward intentional storytelling and has taken to podcasting. This first effort is Black Desserts where host Therese Nelson deep dives into the life and work of the creative forces behind our countries most delicious sweets.

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Bean To Bar Chocolate

Season 2 · Episode 4

Wednesday, December 29, 2021 • Duration 46:38

This episode explores the ecosystem around bean-to-bar chocolate making with the creatives reclaiming chocolate for the African diaspora. In this episode, i talk with the chef, activist, and chocolatier Selassie Atadika, owner of Midunu Chocolate about the impact indigenous reclamation of the diasporic legacy of chocolate production could have on the future of the industry and Lissette Davis Grenada bases chocolate and rum expert to talk about the branding and practical possibilities of Black agency in chocolate business but diaspora stakeholders.

The Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective is offering a sampler box full of 12 minibars made by member farmers and chocolatiers from across the African Atlantic. You can find out more about the Alliance of Rural Communities and how to order their holiday chocolate box at www.chocolaterebellion.com

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Community Cake

Season 2 · Episode 3

Wednesday, December 15, 2021 • Duration 38:22

Nostalgia is a huge factor in the baking traditions in the African American culinary canon and the keepers of southern cake and desserts recipes are preserving that legacy for a whole new generation. In this episode, I talk with Chef Colette Knight (@gudgudpudin) of Atlanta-based Gud Gud Puddin about her family legacy of hospitality service and how she’s using her new specialty dessert company as a rebirth of her professional life and her passion for community building as well as pastry artist Arley Bell (@arley.cakes) of Richmond-based Arley Cakes whose practice pairs social responsibility with entrepreneurship to model the possibilities for this era of civil rights activism.

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Pie Art!

Season 2 · Episode 2

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 • Duration 38:41

This season we’re taking a little bit of a diasporic trip and no place is more important to the movement and colonial influence on Black foodways than the Caribbean. With a complicated economic, geopolitical, and cultural mix of factors, the over 40 countries and territories represent a critical battleground for the practical understanding of the evolution of Black creativity and by extension culinary innovation. In this episode, i got to chat with a Jamaican chef, educator, and social scientist Tiffany-Anne Parker (@pi.naan.ee) who uses pastry to curate the cultural culinary arts practice called Pienanny the interrogates issues of race gender, and culture through desserts.

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Diasporic Desserts

Season 2 · Episode 1

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 • Duration 32:48

Sweets look different across the African diaspora, where baking is less about decadent desserts to end a meal and more about special occasions, a taste of other parts of the world, and the botanical bounty of indigenous fruits. I wanted to start this season with a grounding conversation at the West African center of the Black culinary diaspora. On this episode, I drafted my friend, the ever-brilliant Nigerian food explorer, culinary anthropologist, and food historian Ozoz Sokoh (@kitchenbutterfly) of Kitchen Butterfly and founder of Feast Afrique to help us reimagine Black desserts.

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A History of American Cake Design: In conversation with Chef Toba Garrett

Season 1 · Episode 6

Thursday, June 3, 2021 • Duration 40:13

An intimate conversation with Master Pastry Chef Toba Garrett.

In the world of cake decorating there is a name that emerges among most professionals as a master of the craft, and that Chef Toba Garret. She wrote the go-to text on cake decorating and is a living legend internationally. I'm honored to share our conversation as the season finale.

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