And maybe now, we know our worth,” says Raiford. “Good food and good community go hand in hand. They encourage their young sons to learn the sustainable farming techniques and cooking traditions passed down from their West African ancestors over 300 years ago. Today, Raiford and his wife, Tia, work tirelessly at their sixth-generation family-run Gillard Farm in Brunswick, Georgia. Her seminal cookbook, “ Vibration Cooking: Or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl,” documented recipes from her South Carolina Lowcountry home and gave a glimpse into the lives of Black migrants. In the 1970s, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor put Gullah-Geechee cultural identity in front of Americans for the first time. Over the years, chefs, historians and authors around the country have made it their mission to preserve Gullah Geechee culinary traditions for today’s generation and those to come. “Instead of dying after their landowners abandoned their cotton, indigo and rice plantation, the Geechee thrived in collectives that shared their bountiful resources as well as their own language, music, art and spiritual traditions,” writes Matthew Raiford in his new book, “ Bress ‘n' Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer.” Many African American decedents of enslaved people lived along the barrier islands and along the coast of Georgia, Florida and both Carolinas. Robinson's published titles have been acclaimed for the author's mixture of authentic Gullah recipes, home remedies, folklore, memoir, and documentation of the Gullah dialect spoken by island natives.These cookbooks and memoirs give insight into African American culture and cuisine Robinson now runs a tour company on Daufuskie Island and offers Gullah perspective on the amazing island. Members of Robinson's family are also featured in Daufuskie Island, A Photographic Essay by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Before Conroy's death in 2016, the two sometimes made joint appearances at literary events.
She was among the students Conroy taught on Daufuskie Island and maintained a friendship with the author as an adult. While she is an author in her own right, Robinson's literary debut actually came as the character named Ethel in Pat Conroy’s classic memoir, The Water Is Wide. Robinson was born on Daufuskie Island before natives began selling their ancestral land to private corporations and individuals in the 1960s and began moving inland to surrounding areas in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and elsewhere. A native of Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, she is noted for her knowledge of Gullah traditions and history.
Sallie Ann Robinson is an American cookbook author, celebrity chef, and cultural historian.
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