Nearly 400 women are expected to dive deeply in all aspects of the food section at DC on April 25 to 26 at the third annual summit of black food women (BWIF) brings chefs, restaurateurs, food writers, defenders of food justice, farmers and food entrepreneurs to orient women towards the management of the world of food.
Co-founded by Nina Oduro and Maame Boakye, the theme of this year’s summit is “unlimited: claiming space for abundance”.
“The food system is vast. When we think of the way people consume and experience food, we look at it from the floor to the table and beyond,” said Oduro.
Dine Diaspora, based in Washington DC, the engine behind Black Women in Food Summit, was also co -founded by Oduro and Boakye, and undertakes to connect people and brands to the food culture of the African diaspora. Thanks to their work, women have intentionally focused on lack of opportunities for color professionals, including black women, to advance food to food.
“We are catalysts. It is important for us to have a space to feed ourselves, “said Boakye, expressing the need for the summit. “We have to connect to be inspired.”
Exciting reasoning for the Summit of Black In Food women this year, Oduro and Boakye organized an overview of the media in Elmina in Northwest, DC, led by the chief, author and the personality of television Eric Admong.
“Women in food and this initiative that these two ladies have started had a training effect,” said Ghanaian-American chief, celebrating Oduro and Boakye and the summit mission. “I started here in the district, and now it is felt nationally.”
Adorgong highlighted the importance of women in the food and drinks sector.
“It is an honor to have women in this industry with us,” he said. “To shop, cooking, writing, collaboration, creation and everything.”
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During the visit of the website for the Black Women in Food Summit this year, the women who attended last year’s event sing praises on what they won by being in a learning and unit space.
“These events are excellent in community spaces because it allows us to talk just about food, to enjoy food in a common space,” said Simone Scott, editor -in -chief of America’s test Kitchen.
Jamila Robinson, editor -in -chief of Bon Appétit and Epicurious, stressed that the summit offers a moment to meet to find ways to meet the challenges.
“At the top of Black Women in Food women, it is very important to talk about funding challenges and meet people who can help,” said Robinson. “There are black women in all aspects of the culinary industry.”
This year’s summit sponsors include Pepsico, Ezcater, New Voices Foundation, Open Table, Rethink Food, Iss Guckenheimer, Niman Ranch and women who advance nutritional dietetics and agriculture, who help advance women’s work and efforts in the food industry and beyond.
“The reason why we have a two -day summit and why we continue to enlarge, it is because women returned and asked for it,” said Oduro. “What space to establish a connection and pay in ourselves.
