Kardea Brown
{{Short description|American chef and TV host}}
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| known_for = Delicious Miss Brown
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Kardea Brown is an American chef and caterer known for being the host of the television show Delicious Miss Brown on the Food Network.{{cite web | title=Delicious Miss Brown | website=Food Network | date=2019-07-12 | url=https://www.postandcourier.com/food/food-network-signs-sc-native-kardea-brown-to-two-year-contract-extension/article_27e1a72a-382c-11ec-b050-7fa140f7c508.html | access-date=2022-02-09}} The show has reached 3.5 million viewers since its 2019 premiere, averaging over 1 million viewers per episode, and its 10th season began in 2024.{{cite news |last1=Milner |first1=Parker |title=Food Network signs SC native Kardea Brown to two-year contract extension |url=https://www.postandcourier.com/charleston_scene/charleston-gullah-chef-hosts-third-season-of-food-network-show-delicious-miss-brown/article_5a0eb556-e640-11ea-beab-8f542bfb39fb.html |access-date=9 February 2022 |work=Post and Courier |date=August 24, 2020}}{{cite web | last=Krishna|first=Priya|title=Kardea Brown Honors Gullah Cuisine and Her Family's Traditions | website=Southern Living | date=2020-06-17 | url=https://www.southernliving.com/food/kardea-brown-gullah-cuisine | access-date=2022-02-09}}
Early life
Brown was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and is of Gullah descent; her grandmother is from Wadmalaw Island.{{cite web | title=Meet the Next Food Network Star: Kardea Brown | website=Garden & Gun | date=2019-11-18 | url=https://gardenandgun.com/articles/meet-next-food-network-star-kardea-brown/ | access-date=2022-02-09}} She is a contemporary Southern cook.
Career
She had been working in social services and auditioned for a pilot on the Food Network but was told to work on her cooking skills. She started the New Gullah Supper Club in 2015, a pop-up traveling supper club featuring traditional Gullah dishes "with a contemporary twist" at events often featuring Gullah singers or storytellers. She was invited by Food Network to be on Beat Bobby Flay and to host Cupcake Championship before being offered her own show. Brown signed an exclusive contract with Food Network in 2021, which included her being the host of The Great Soul Food Cook-Off.{{cite web | last=Massouleh McCay|first=Tara|title=Who's the Country's Best Soul Food Chef? A New Cooking Competition Show Aims to Find Out | website=Southern Living | date=2021-12-08 | url=https://www.southernliving.com/food/great-soul-food-cook-off-premieres | access-date=2022-02-09}}
Delicious Miss Brown is set at a home on Edisto Island and focuses on "fresh, seasonal, and very seafood heavy" cooking.{{cite web | last=Johnson|first=Lauren B.|title=15 Minutes with Kardea Brown | website=CHARLESTON SC | date=2020-08-25 | url=https://charlestonmag.com/features/15_minutes_with_kardea_brown | access-date=2022-02-09}}{{cite news |last1=Oyer |first1=Kalyn |title=Charleston Gullah chef hosts third season of Food Network show ‘Delicious Miss Brown’ |url=https://www.postandcourier.com/charleston_scene/charleston-gullah-chef-hosts-third-season-of-food-network-show-delicious-miss-brown/article_5a0eb556-e640-11ea-beab-8f542bfb39fb.html |access-date=9 February 2022 |work=Post and Courier |date=August 24, 2020}} Brown's great-great-great grandmother was the last person to own Hutchinson House on Edisto Island. She hosted an episode with a fish-fry fundraiser to raise money for the house's restoration in 2021.{{cite web | last=Kohler | first=Dan | title=Perspective - Food Network says it’s dedicated to teaching. But it never let me say ‘slavery’ on air. | website=Washington Post | date=2021-05-28 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2021/05/28/food-network-slavery/ | access-date=2022-02-09}} During that show she discussed the history of slavery and the formerly enslaved people who built Hutchinson House, despite the network's past concerns about discussing similar topics on the network, according to food historian Dan Kohler.
Her first cookbook The Way Home was published in October 2022.{{Cite web |last=Milner |first=Parker |date=October 13, 2022 |title=SC’s Food Network star Kardea Brown set to release 1st cookbook |url=https://www.postandcourier.com/food/sc-s-food-network-star-kardea-brown-set-to-release-1st-cookbook/article_3c4a704c-33a4-11ed-8195-23ca2c81d87c.html |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=Post and Courier |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://kardeabrown.com/ Official website]
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