Angela Davis (chef)

Angela Davis, also known as The Kitchenista, is an American chef and food blogger. She created her blog The Kitchenista Diaries in 2012 and used social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram to grow her audience. Her work has appeared in outlets including Huffington Post, Hour Detroit, Food 52, and the Washington Post. [2][3][4][5]

Angela Davis
Born1981 (age 39–40)[1]
NationalityAmerican
Other namesThe Kitchenista
OccupationChef, food blogger
Years active2012–present
Known forThe Kitchenista Diaries (blog)
Websitekitchenistadiaries.com

Career

A self-taught chef, Davis started the food blog The Kitchenista Diaries in 2012 while working as an accountant. In 2013, she was laid off from her job as an accountant and decided to focus on her blog full-time.[1] Pregnant with her second child and motivated to provide for her family, she began working as a private chef, catering, and hosting live cooking events.[2][1] Davis used social media sites like Twitter to further build an audience and credits such platforms with providing her referrals for offline opportunities.[2][6] She uses the hashtag #KitchenistaSundays as a way for followers to share their homecooked meals.[2] Her platform grew to the point where emcee Black Thought, one of her followers, hired her to cater a concert for The Roots.[2]

Davis has worked with companies such as Aveeno, Royal Caribbean, and KitchenAid.[7][6][3] She has published multiple digital cookbooks, which accounted for over 50 percent of her income as of 2019.[7]

Influences

Davis's earliest models for cooking were her parents and her grandmothers, one who cooked soul food and the other who cooked Cape Verdean cuisine.[8] She has spoken about the importance of preserving Black heritage through cooking traditional dishes.[9] Two of her signatures dishes, her biscuits and her macaroni and cheese, are rooted in her upbringing in the South.[10][11]

She has noted the under representation of Black food bloggers and advocates for the education system to create pathways for culinary careers.[8][12] She names Carla Hall and G. Garvin as two of her chef inspirations.[8]

Personal life

Davis moved around frequently during her childhood because her father was in the military.[12] She lived in Florida and Virginia in her adulthood.[11] She is of African American and Cape Verdean descent.[8]

Davis has a son (b. 2004) and a daughter (b. 2014).[11] She resides in Detroit.[11]

References
  1. Penn, Charli (2016-03-29). "Started With a Recipe, Now She's Here: Food Blogger 'The Kitchenista' Shares Her Story". Essence. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  2. "Former Accountant Turned Self Taught Chef Talks Tips For Creating Your Own Lane". Black Enterprise. 2017-11-26. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  3. Green, Lyndsay (2020-08-07). "Meet the Black Culinarians Powering the Detroit Food Scene". Hour Detroit Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  4. "From Cobbler to Mofongo: A Recipe for Every Day of Black History Month". Food52. 2018-02-06. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  5. Davis, Angela. "How to send your child to school with a tasty lunch without turning your routine upside down". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  6. Jones, Feminista, 1979- (2019). Reclaiming our space : how Black feminists are changing the world from the tweets to the streets. Boston, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-0-8070-5537-3. OCLC 1035440566.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. Kelly, Cara. "Fyre Festival to fashion week, how do Instagram influencers make so much money?". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  8. "Food Blogger Angela Davis | Q&A | African Americans in Culinary Arts | PBS". PBS. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  9. Staes, Mary (2018-10-22). "The Kitchenista and how a Gene's po-boy changed her life". New Orleans. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  10. Bashir, Imani (2019-06-21). "The Cultural Differences That Define Macaroni And Cheese". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  11. Masur, Lauren (2019-10-03). "A Week of Dinners from Angela Davis, the Social Media Queen Behind The Kitchenista Diaries". The Kitchn. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  12. Colas, Vicky. "Angela Davis of The Kitchenista Diaries: "If you can serve people something that conjures up memories of grandparents, or a vacation they loved, or happy times in childhood, they will go crazy"". Medium. Authority Magazine. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
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