FOCUS Presents: 'Twisted Soul' - Professor Tera Hunter in Conversation with Chef Deborah VanTrece

On Friday, May 7th at 7:30 PM, ODUS hosted a virtual event featuring Professor Tera Hunter in conversation with Chef Deborah VanTrece. It was the latest event in the FOCUS Speaker Series, a program designed to deepen and enrich anti-racist education at Princeton.

Tera W. Hunter
is the Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African American Studies at Princeton, where she teaches in both the History Department and the African American Studies Department. Her research focuses on race, gender, slavery, and labor in the American South. Her latest book is Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century. Deborah VanTrece is the chef, creative director, and owner of Twisted Soul Cookhouse and Pours, a fixture of the Atlanta restaurant scene. VanTrece has worked as a chef for twenty-five years and was awarded the Atlanta Business League’s 2017 Super Tuesday Conference Award for Creative Style. She was also featured as one of Zagat’s Most Badass Female Chefs in the US.