To Value the Breadth of Black Cuisine, You Have to Photograph It

We need to decolonize what is considered ‘aesthetically pleasing’ food

Kayla Stewart
ZORA
Published in
6 min readDec 12, 2019

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IfIf you’re looking for Black or West African food on iStock, you might have some trouble. A search for “Black food” or “African American food” pulls up a range of random results: a few Black Americans cooking or eating, an image of coffee…

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Kayla Stewart
ZORA
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Kayla Stewart is a freelance journalist from Houston, and is currently based in Harlem.