Adrian Miller, Dropping Knowledge Like Hot Biscuits

This month, Repast welcomes Adrian Miller.  Known as the Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller is a culinary historian, James Beard award-winning food writer, former White House staffer, and a certified BBQ judge.  He is also a recovering lawyer.  Adrian, Diana, and Amber Ward, a 2L at Columbia Law School and the Resnick Center’s summer research assistant, discuss the history of Black cuisine, how the legacy of slavery and segregation has influenced the development of Black cuisine in America, the erasure of Black cuisine from the cultural narrative of American cuisine, and more.  

You can read about Adrian Miller and his work here.

Amber Ward did her 1L year at UCLA Law School and is now a 2L at Columbia Law.

Diana Winters is the Deputy Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law.

You can find Adrian’s book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, the winner of the 2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, here.

You can watch High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, in which Adrian appears, on Netflix.