A Special Culinary Experience with Chef Bryant Terry

📍 Waterman Manor, 5th Floor Waterman Building — 85 S. Prospect St.
📅 Tuesday, February 3
🕐 11:00 AM–1:30 PM
💵 Enjoy Menu Items From Bryant Terry | Accepted Tender: Retail Points, Credit/Debit, CAT$cratch, Chartstring
📞 RSVP: (802) 656-4664 | Walk-ins are welcome!

Join us at Waterman Manor for an exclusive dining experience featuring the acclaimed chef, artist, and author Bryant Terry. Known for weaving together food, culture, and activism, Terry’s cooking is rooted in global flavors, seasonal ingredients, and a deep respect for the cultural stories behind every dish. His work celebrates plant-forward cuisine as a pathway to nourishment, creativity, and community connection. Bringing his signature approach that blends culinary excellence with storytelling and social impact, Bryant Terry invites guests to gather, reflect, and experience food as a catalyst for joy and change in this special campus dining event.

Menu Highlights

Soup: Hominy & Spinach in Tomato Garlic Broth

Salad: Shredded Beet, Apple & Current Salad w/ Apple Vinaigrette

Appetizer: Caramelized Leek and Seared Mushroom Toast

Main: Cornmeal Fried Oyster Mushroom Po Boy

About Bryant Terry

Bryant Terry is a chef, artist, author, and publisher whose work centers food as a powerful tool for creativity, culture, and community connection. Trained as a chef and historian, his multidisciplinary practice blends cooking, art, and storytelling to explore themes of resilience, cultural memory, and social change.

From 2015 to 2022, Terry served as the inaugural Chef-in-Residence at San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora, where he developed innovative programming that connected food, health, farming, art, and activism. His work has been featured at institutions nationwide, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and The Hammer Museum at UCLA.

Terry is the author of five critically acclaimed cookbooks and editor of Black Food, widely praised as one of the most influential American cookbooks of 2021. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of 4 Color Books, an imprint of Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House, where he collaborates with leading creatives of color to produce visually striking books rooted in food and culture.

A recipient of a James Beard Award, an NAACP Image Award, and an Art of Eating Prize, Terry brings a deep commitment to equity, creativity, and community into every space he enters. Through cooking demonstrations, conversations, and shared meals, his work invites audiences to gather, learn, and imagine more just and joyful food systems.