Gabrielle Davenport
Co-founder of BEM, a bookstore and community space for Black food literature in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and organizer of the Edna Lewis Festival celebrating The Taste of Country Cooking.
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May 6, 2026 • 60min
771: 50 Years of Edna Lewis’s "The Taste of Country Cooking" with BEM’s Gabrielle Davenport
Gabrielle Davenport, co-founder of BEM bookstore and community hub for Black food literature in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. She talks about building a welcoming cookbook space, hosting events and festivals, and organizing the Edna Lewis Festival for the 50th anniversary reissue of The Taste of Country Cooking. Short takes on design, preservation of Southern techniques, festival programming, and contemporary books influenced by Edna.
