Maya Marie S.
Project: The Soul of Food’s “For the Love of Grains” workshop
“For the Love of Grains” is a hands on culinary workshop dedicated to Afro-Indigenous grains that are mainstays across African diasporas. During the session we’ll spend time honoring the stories of rice, sorghum and corn; going over the milling process; and collectively preparing them in a dish we’ll share together. Through discussion and preparation of these grain-producing plants we’ll learn how they connect and continue to feed Black and Indigenous diasporas. This session is a part of “The Soul of Food”, a Deep Routes workshop series honoring the foodways that connect plants, peoples, and lands across Afro-Indigenous diasporas.
Bio:
Maya Marie S. (she/her) is a Black farmer, chef, writer, and foodways educator from Baltimore, MD (Piscataway, Cherokee, and Lumbee lands) with roots in the Southern US who’s called Brooklyn, NY (Canarsee, Lenni Lenape lands) her home for the past 14 years. She’s deeply invested in creating accessible spaces for Black and brown people to learn about food and health that center their personal stories and food traditions while reconnecting with the earth and each other. She’s the founder and lead facilitator of Deep Routes, has taught agricultural coursework as a faculty member for Farm School NYC and LaGuardia Community College, and in her spare time enjoys creating visual archives of her personal food stories on Seeds & Receipts.