Gabrielle Davenport is the cofounder of ⁠BEM⁠, a bookstore and community space for Black food literature in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. It’s been a wonderfully busy season of cookbook events and releases, and this week BEM is reaching a whole new level by hosting the ⁠Edna Lewis Festival⁠. It’s a week of all-star events honoring the 50th anniversary reissue of Edna Lewis’s seminal cookbook ⁠The Taste of Country Cooking⁠. Today on the show, Gabrielle shares updates from the always-busy world of BEM and goes deep into Edna Lewis’s legacy and how it’s living on today. 

And it’s the return of Three Things where Aliza and Matt discuss what’s interesting in the food world including recent dessert explorations at ⁠Superiority Burger⁠, ⁠Uncle’s Thai Food⁠ x ⁠Apollo Bagels⁠, ⁠Hots Pizza⁠ is a new favorite NYC slice. Also: Chef Shuai Wang’s Sichuan ⁠Hot Chicken Spice⁠ is terrific. Also, Oatly ⁠gets creative⁠ with NYC bar Schmuck and New York has a new cookbook store! ⁠Wild Sorrel Cookbooks⁠ is a gem.  

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