The Flaky Foodie's Black History Month series includes information about a historical African-American food pioneer and a conversation with a modern-day culinary trailblazer.

This is the fourth and final installment in the  2022 series. For the past, we'll learn about two enslaved and immensely talented chefs: Hercules Posey/Washington and James Hemings. Then we will talk with Chef Leon C. Brunson, who will open his first restaurant later in 2022.

Chef Leon C. Brunson

• https://leoncbrunson.com/

Hercules Posey

• https://www.npr.org/2008/02/19/18950467/hercules-and-hemings-presidents-slave-chefs
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2020/11/19/washington-thanksgiving-hercules/
• https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/hercules/
• https://www.nps.gov/inde/learn/historyculture/enslaved-people.htm
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/dining/hercules-posey.html
• https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220201-hercules-posey-george-washingtons-unsung-enslaved-chef
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Posey#Life_at_Mount_Vernon

James Hemings

• https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/james-hemings
• https://monticello-www.s3.amazonaws.com/files/old/inline-pdfs/2016w_RoomWhereItHappened.pdf
• https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/17/449447335/behind-the-founding-foodie-a-french-trained-chef-bound-by-slavery
• https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-27-02-0127

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