Taste the Diaspora Detroit was created to celebrate Africa’s contribution to American cuisine in highlighting the food of the African Diaspora.

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Each week of Black History Month honors a specific cuisine: from Africa to the Caribbean to the Americas. Local chefs partnered with Black farmers and food makers to masterfully curate dishes to be sold as a shoebox lunch, a nod to food boxes used by African American travelers during the Jim Crow era.

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This initiative is in support of Black restaurants, chefs, farmers, and food makers and to grow community across the local food system.