Jessica B. Harris

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In the 1970s, Harris worked as a journalist before becoming a food writer. She was book review editor at Essence and theater critic for New York Amsterdam News, the United States' oldest black newspaper. From July to November in 1999, she worked as a resident food historian for Sara Moulton's Cooking Live Primetime. She has also appeared on various other television shows such as The Today Show, The Main Ingredient, The Curtis Aikens Show, and Good Morning America.

Harris is professor emerita in the English Department at Queens College/C.U.N.Y, where she taught for 50 years. She was the inaugural scholar in residence in the Ray Charles Chair in African American Material Culture at Dillard University in New Orleans. She also founded the Institute for the Study of Culinary Cultures at Dillard. She hosts a monthly program, My Welcome Table, on Heritage Radio Network. She has published 12 books. Her primary subjects are the culinary history, foodways and recipes of the African diaspora. Harris was a 2004 winner of the lifetime achievement awards from the Southern Foodways Alliance and a 2010 James Beard Foundation special award honoree. In 2017 she published a memoir My Soul Looks Back.

In May 2021, Netflix released a four-episode series High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America based on Harris' 2011 book High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America. In 2020, she won a James Beard Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement. In September 2021, she appeared on the Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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