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October 27-28, 2023
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Awards

Each year, the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates men and women whose lifework enriches Southern food culture. Seven SFA awards and honors recognize these cultural standard bearers.

2016 Smith Fellow: Tunde Wey

Tunde Wey is a writer and chef from Nigeria currently living in New Orleans. He has created notable food concepts in Detroit and New Orleans and facilitates a traveling dinner and dialogue dinner series exploring Blackness in America. His food work has been written about in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and other media outlets. Tunde’s writing has been published in the Oxford American, Boston Globe, and Okay Africa.

Honorees

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2020 Smith Fellow: Reyna Duong

Reye Duong is a 2020 Smith Fellow and chef-owner of Sandwich Hag, her restaurant that offers employment opportunities for people of all abilities.

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2020 Smith Fellows: Ashley Smith and Trevor Claiborn

Ashley Smith and Trevor Claiborn are 2020 Smith Fellows and co-founders of Black Soil.

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2020 Smith Fellow: Erick Williams

Erick Williams is a 2020 Smith Fellow and the owner/executive chef at Virtue Restaurant & Bar in Chicago.

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2020 Smith Fellow: Lawrence Weeks

Lawrence Weeks is a 2020 Smith Fellow interested in sustainably sourced seafood and its environmental impacts.

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2019 Smith Fellow: Fernay McPherson

Fernay McPherson, of Minnie Bell's, is a 2019 Smith Fellow.

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2019 Smith Fellow: Samantha Fore

Samantha Fore is the owner and chef of Tuk Tuk Sri Lankan Bites, a pop-up food operation in her hometown of Lexington,…
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