Sarah Rawls

{{Short description|American celebrity chef}}

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Sarah Rawls was one of the first Black celebrity chefs.{{cite web | last=Fletcher | first=Ethan | title=Rooted in Community: Oakland's Black Food Collective | website=Diablo Magazine | date=2021-01-22 | url=https://www.diablomag.com/people-style/people/rooted-in-community-oakland-s-black-food-collective/article_a4557eae-5799-11eb-806a-b312222f24eb.html | access-date=2021-04-01}} Rawls was an accomplished restaurateur, with several successful establishments starting in the Bay Area in the 1970s.{{cite web | last=Han | first=Sarah | title=Crave BBQ chef opens Grammie's Down-Home Chicken & Seafood in Oakland | website=Berkeleyside | date=2019-06-03 | url=https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/06/03/crave-bbq-chef-opens-grammies-down-home-chicken-seafood-in-oakland | access-date=2021-04-01}} Host of the television series Down Home Cooking, Rawls expanded the reach of her show to syndication in 26 cities in 1981.[https://books.google.com/books?id=H7cDAAAAMBAJ&q=rawls&pg=PA58 Jet magazine, April 16, 1981, page 58] The cooking show featured guest appearances by the likes of Andrae Crouch and Richard Kline. In addition to making commercials for Ac'cent seasoning (one alongside Sammy Davis Jr.),{{Cite book |last=Foxworth |first=Marilyn Kern |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3hOSAAAAIAAJ&q=Sarah+Rawls+chef |title=Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow |date=1994-07-30 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-0-313-26798-7 |pages=120 |language=en}} she was the author of Sarah Rawls' Down to Earth Cook Book, Down Home Recipes: Sarah Rawls' Family-pleasing Meals, and Talkin' Turkey.