Cooking Class: Coastal Paella with Matthew Raiford

Live online cooking instruction from today’s most exciting culinary figures

Jun 16, 2021

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Join James Beard Award finalist Matthew Raiford for a uniquely intimate experience as he shares the secrets of Gullah Geechee cuisine from his home kitchen on his Georgia farm, and shows you how to create one of his favorite dishes, Coastal Paella.

Raiford’s groundbreaking new book, Bress ‘n’ Nyam (“bless and eat”), features recipes and history capturing the glorious food of the coastal South. The dynamic chef and farmer runs an organic family farm on the lands of his great-great-great grandfather in Brunswick, Georgia, where he is the sixth generation to farm since 1874. Raiford celebrates his Gullah Geechee heritage and the cuisine brought to America from West Africa, concentrated in the low country area of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. Raiford continues this rich culinary tradition based on shellfish and seafood, local produce, rice and grains and more, merging the food of his ancestors with refined modern Southern cooking. Join Raiford as he demonstrates Coastal Paella, talks about the history of this remarkable cuisine, and shares the spirit of community that fuels everything he cooks.

Purchase Bress ‘n’ Nyam: Gullah Geechee recipes from a sixth-generation farmer.

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