Chef & Cultural Curator
Amethyst Ganaway
Chef & Cultural Curator, Water Whippin'
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i. Biography
Amethyst Ganaway is a North Charleston, South Carolina–born chef, food writer, and cultural curator exploring Gullah Geechee, Black Southern, and African diasporic foodways. With over a decade of restaurant experience, her writing and recipes have been published in The New York Times, Food & Wine, The Washington Post, and Saveur. She serves as the lead consultant and curator of Harvesting Heritage for the South Carolina State Museum and received the South Carolina Governor's Award in the Humanities.
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