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26 Sep

How Chefs From St. Martin Brought ‘The ‘Melting Pot

How Chefs From St. Martin Brought ‘The ‘Melting Pot
2022 Essence Festival of Culture held in Recent Orleans, Louisiana- July 1-3, 2022 St.Martin natives Chef Kareem Brooks and Chef Kénila Hyman gave a culinary demonstration in the course of the first-ever ESSENCE Eats Food And Wine Festival on the 2022 ESSENCE Festival of Culture. The chefs taught participants the way to make a number of tasty staple dishes from the Caribbean island, including traditional favorites like dumplings with crab, johnny cakes (or journey cakes) and saltfish. Those in attendance also got to taste these dishes that so many enjoy from the island that’s generally known as the culinary capital of the Caribbean.  For Chef Brooks, it was a singular opportunity to spotlight some dishes from his beloved island and connect individuals with the island’s...
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14 Sep

These Black-Owned FemTech Corporations Brought Retail Innovation To Essence

These Black-Owned FemTech Corporations Brought Retail Innovation To Essence
Big data has long had a giant inclusivity problem. Often, AI algorithms are built with systems that may contain racial and gender biases that leave a big group of individuals unseen and unheard. That’s what led Jessica Couch and Brittany Hicks to found consumer insights and consulting firm Fayetteville Road–the name is a play on their North Carolina roots. Graduates of North Carolina State University andNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University respectively, they each learned in regards to the inner working of retail management and recognized a few of the blind spots. “I worked in tech as a product manager for several years for numerous retail tech corporations, and I had also gotten my experience for data and...
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11 Sep

Heaven by Marc Jacobs Brought the Fashion Crowd to Elsewhere

Heaven by Marc Jacobs Brought the Fashion Crowd to Elsewhere
Heaven by Marc Jacobs went to the mecca of its Gen Z customer base on Saturday night: Bushwick. The brand took over the nightclub Elsewhere in celebration of its fall campaign, which stars Doja Cat — officially a cohost for the evening — Charli XCX, Dev Hynes, Pamela Anderson and Kyle MacLachlan. The road to get into the venue stretched down Johnson Avenue and wrapped across the block shortly after the doors opened at 10 p.m., with hordes of hopeful club-goers jostling to get inside. “Everyone on this line is on the list,” one among the bouncers told a bunch making their case to chop to the front. By midnight, the intimate room was packed wall-to-wall with bodies. Guests enveloped by...
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