V. Sheree Williams

This article is part of Elle.com's Chef's Kiss profiles of eight women chefs who are changing the culinary industry, cooking food their way.

Mariya Moore-Russell is a Michelin-star chef who garnered headlines in 2019 for her history-making moment of becoming the first Black women to do so in Michelin's 100+ year guide history.

After taking two years off from kitchens, she is back cooking food on her own terms.

Article details Grenada's enthusiasm and work to share the ingredients and cuisine with the world. The article also highlights the first Caribbean dinner hosted by the James Beard Foundation.

History tells us about Mississippi’s storied past. But it is its current generation of community ambassadors, state advocates, entrepreneurs and business owners telling a different story, especially about the state’s most populous city and capital, Jackson.

Heartwarming article the places a spotlight on Memphis' Black food scene, musical influences that have influenced the world, history that changed the civil rights movement and how the resilience of the people who call it home are determined to make the city one of the best in the South.

Created a professional press kit for Alicia Maria Kidd, owner of The Wine Noire, that can be used to secure media interviews and other opportunities.

Alexanders Smalls is one of the most interesting people in the culinary industry. The former opera singer turned award-winning chef, restaurateur, cookbook author has very vivid memories of his childhood growing up in South Carolina and his journey to Europe and back to the states.

In this article, I share his how food as always been a part of who he is and when he found a way to express it so that it honored his ancestors, the rest is history.

My trip to this Northwestern city of Arkansas last fall wasn’t centered around Walmart’s home offices, as for many hoping to close a deal to get their products on the shelves. Instead, it was to discover the vibrancy and rebirth, as I would say, that Bentonville has been going through over the last ten years.

A trip to Little Rock proved to be a pleasant surprise as the city works to reinvent its past with a bright and diverse future.

Going into season 7 of “The Great British Bake-off” in 2016, “hobby” baker and teacher Benjamina Ebuehi still wasn’t sure that a professional career path in baking was possible. Growing up in a Nigerian family in London, Ebuehi remembers watching her mom cook all the time, but baking was pretty much non-existent.

Baltimore continues to grow and thrive no matter what history or current day happenings may throw its way. Known as “the city of neighborhoods,” Baltimore is Maryland’s largest city surrounded by history and culture that extends back to its independence in 1729.

This article takes a cultural look at the city's contributions to art and culture as well as some of the people who call it home.

If you don't know Marie Inès Romelle and her Champagne brand Marie Césaire, it is only a matter of time. Hailed as the first Afro-Caribbean woman with a Champagne brand, Romelle is a true testament that if you see it, believe it and put the work in, there is nothing you can’t do.

Lila Owens opened the Cupcakin’ Bake Shop in Oakland's Swan's Market to rave reviews. The second of three locations planned, here cupcakes are known to be moist and delicious down to each bite.

Coming from a real estate background with no professional training, Owens is building a Bay Area legacy one cupcake at a time.