Bryant Terry

Bryant Terry is a James Beard and NAACP Image Award-winning chef, educator, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of 4 Color Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House and Ten Speed Press. For the 2022-23 academic year, Bryant will be an Artist Fellow at UC Berkeley as a member of the second cohort of Abolition Democracy Fellows. Bryant’s sixth book, Black Food, was the most critically acclaimed American cookbook published in 2021, and it won the Art of Eating Prize which is awarded annually to the year’s best book about food. San Francisco Magazine included Bryant among 11 Smartest People in the Bay Area Food Scene, and Fast Company named him one of 9 People Who Are Changing the Future of Food. In regard to his work, Bryant’s mentor Alice Waters says, “Bryant Terry knows that good food should be an everyday right and not a privilege.”