Cuisine Noir Magazine

05/23/2026

Today marks the first day of Reunion Island’s first food festival dedicated to Creole history and culture through its cuisine. Sommet & Festival International des Chefs Créoles will take place this weekend, gathering some of the best Creole chefs in the Indian Ocean and beyond.

As a media partner, we have been proudly covering the event since last December. We teamed back up with host Madalena Pedro Miala for a special conversation on Diaspora Food Stories with the festival and International Institute of Creole Gastronomy founder Jean-Charles Bertrand.

Parlez-vous Francais? If so, enjoy episode that is only available in French. Be sure to check out this teaser and listen to the full episode on our website diasporafoodstories.com as well as on our YouTube channel for The Global Food and Drink Initiative.

You can click the link in our bio and this post to go directly to it.

Be sure to check out our Events highlights for coverage and more.

04/27/2026

Our latest podcast episode is out and it is a conversation that is long overdue.

We’re catching up with Zella Palmer who is committed to documenting and preserving African American, Creole, Indigenous and LatinX culinary history.

She is also the chair and director of the Dillard University Ray Charles Program in African-American Material Culture in New Orleans and under her leadership, Dillard launched its food minor program in 2020.

She filmed and produced the Story of New Orleans Creole Cooking: The Black Hand in the Pot documentary and released her latest film project “Grenada to the World,” last year.

Amazingly talented, she is also the author of Recipes and Remembrances of Fair Dillard: 1869-2019 and a James Beard Foundation Semi-Finalist (U.S. Foodways) for “Ed Mitchell’s Barbeque.”

Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Zella’s life and work has been shaped by an legacy of love and service from her parents and one can feel the impact through each story told during this conversation.

Listen to the full episode directly on our website as well as on Apple, Hayti, Spotify and more streaming platforms and watch on YouTube (The Global Food and Drink Initiative).

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04/02/2024