Jessica B. Harris '68 Graces Cover of the Inaugural Issue of 'For the Culture'
Author and historian Jessica B. Harris '68 graces the cover of the inaugural issue of .
In an announcing the publication of the first issue, Editor in Chief Klancy Miller wrote:
"Dr. Harris is a chronicler of the culture and a person everyone I know in food and wine admires. You know the phrase 'because of her, we can'? That applies to Dr. Harris. I wanted her to be the cover star not only because I love her books and she’s a person I look up to, but because she truly is one of the most impactful culinarians of our time."
Harris' books include Hot Stuff: A Cookbook in Praise of the Piquant; Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons: Africa’s Gifts to New World Cooking; Beyond Gumbo: Creole Fusion Food from the Atlantic Rim; and High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America, My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir and Vintage Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play (Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora).
Harris is Professor Emerita at Queens College/CUNY in New York City, where she was a professor for 50 years. She was a French major at Bryn Mawr. In March of 2020, Harris was awarded the the .