A year ago, The Fayetteville Observer launched Black Tastemakers, an occasional series that highlights African American excellence and influence on the Fayetteville-area food scene.
Among the people featured are culinary veterans and up-and-coming talent; entrepreneurs who bring new flavors to the city and chefs who serve longstanding favorites; and people who run food trucks, have opened sit-down restaurants or elevated the city’s nightlife.
The series is certainly not an exhaustive look at the Black professionals who make the Fayetteville food scene great. It doesn’t include, for example, the sisters who sell gourmet cupcakes in a vending machine at Cross Creek Mall; the Spring Lake woman turning her restaurant into a culinary school; nor the doughnut food truck with a cult following in Fayetteville, just to name a few.
It is, however, a look at some of the delicious food in Fayetteville and the stories of the people who make it possible.
Read the installments of our Black Tastemakers series: