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VoiceNotesFrom the Field : Voicenote Get full access to The (incomplete) field guide for living a life of curiosity at artofcuriosity.substack.com/subscribe
2023-01-0801 min
VoiceNotesVoiceNotes #009Producer’s CommentaryWhen I started as a writer, I was often paralyzed by the fear that I wasn't good enough. I worried that if I showed my work to the world, people would find my mistakes more obvious and my strengths harder to see. I was afraid of rejection, so I wrote in silence, keeping my work to myself. I didn't share my articles for feedback, because I didn't know how to. Then I learned about the power of taking a risk. I learned that if I shared my work, the worst that could ha...
2022-09-0701 min
VoiceNotesVoiceNotes #009Voice Notes is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.PRODUCER’S COMMENTARYCulture teaches us that love and hate are opposites. Upon closer examination, I began to reconsider this long-held belief. I think fear is love's true nemesis. Hate is usually the mask it's wearing. Both fear and love are provoked by the same choice, to care about something or someone else more than we care about ourselves. In the case of love, the object of our care is often other hu...
2022-07-2302 min
VoiceNotesVoiceNotes #007PRODUCER’S COMMENTARYI don't need to tell you that asking for help isn't easy. It's something that I struggle with daily, and it's definitely not something that comes naturally to me. I've heard a lot of reasons why it may be so... almost all have pointed to my lack of humility or inability to push aside my pride--these may play a factor, but it's definitely not the whole story. Whether you're reaching out to your community to find a place to stay or calling your mother because you can't pay your bills, it can be embarrassing, hu...
2022-05-2301 min
VoiceNotesVoiceNote #006PRODUCER’S COMMENTARYThe word ritual has been around for centuries, but it is difficult to find a concise definition. The most common way to describe a ritual is as a specific set of actions that are performed repeatedly by individuals who belong to a particular group or culture. Within any given society, rituals can be seen in religion, sports, and even art and music. I’ve been fascinated lately with how rituals can affect our lives both personally and professionally. I don’t think we realize how powerful rituals are—we often treat them as a dai...
2022-05-1103 min
VoiceNotesVoiceNote #005Producer’s CommentaryFriends are the most important relationships we have in our lives; they are crucial to our happiness and wellbeing, and they are often the most difficult to make and maintain. The one thing we can count on from friendships is that they will change over time. Why do we struggle so much with making and keeping friends in adulthood? Maybe as we grow and change, our expectations around friendship shift. The MysteryFriendships, unlike all other relationships, bring us the closest to self-actualization. While lovers, families, and peers al...
2022-05-0903 min
VoiceNotesVoiceNotes #004Producer’s CommentaryWhat is a personal soundtrack, but a world we build for ourselves to live in, that is composed of melodies, beats, and lyrics? We have a song for everything--the moment you began your first job, where you were when you heard that news story about a tragedy, or how the music made you feel when you went on that first date. Music is linked to more than physical moments. They are portals to a catalog of emotional memories from different points in life. It can point to places in our lives that re...
2022-05-0401 min
VoiceNotesVoiceNotes #003Producer’s CommentaryWhat's the point of life if you're not living it to the fullest? Have you ever felt the weight of someone else's wants and needs pushing down on you? Have you ever taken your own happiness as a given while fighting tooth and nail to make someone else happy? Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe, being happy is more important than making someone else happy? If so, let me tell you that these are not selfish thoughts or feelings; they are some of the most selfless thoughts and feelings there are because wh...
2022-05-0203 min
VoiceNotesVoiceNotes #002You used to know that when you got the mail, there was bound to be something in it with your name on it – may be a letter or two, or even an unexpected package! With so much communication happening online these days, and few of us receiving paper bills anymore, the odds that you get something like that have gotten lower and lower. Are we losing something by not knowing what’s going on in our friends’ lives as often as we used to? It can feel that way sometimes. Maybe they feel the same way? Maybe there’s room in...
2022-04-2707 min
VoiceNotesVoiceNote #001The right kind of curiosity, properly applied can truly change your life. Through it, you gain a deeper understanding of the world. But where does this quality come from? And when do we stop nurturing it? Is it possible to have too much curiosity? What are the implications of our failure to nurture it? Curiosity can be described as our desire to learn, understand, or explore a particular thing or experience. Curiosity is one of those things that are innate (born with) in some people and something that has to be nurtured in others…..Producer’s Commentary
2022-04-2504 min
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)Cooking with Curiosity with Tiffani RozierTiffani Rozier is a chef, writer, chaser of curiosities and host of the podcast, Afros + Knives
To offer your own advice, call Zak @ 844-935-BESTTRANSCRIPT: ZAK: Hey pal, thanks for joining me for another edition of Food Friday. TIFFANI: My name is Tiffani Rozier, I am what I refer to as a semi-retired chef because my podiatrist only wants it that way right now. I'm a food writer and I host and produce a podcast called the Afros and Knives podcast. ZAK: You step into your kitchen with...
2021-05-2804 min
Radio Cherry BombeThe Afros + Knives Miniseries: Devita Davison of FoodLab Detroit“When I think about the movements that Black women have given us and have sustained just in this generation, I have to wonder why is it that people don’t listen to and follow Black women?” asked FoodLab Detroit Executive Director and co-founder of FoodLab Sydney Devita Davison, citing Black Lives Matter, Black Girl Magic, Free Our Girls, Say Her Name, Me Too, misogynoir, self-care, and intersectionality. Devita joins host Tiffani Rozier for the final episode of the Afros + Knives miniseries. Tune in to hear Devita discuss her life as a first-generation Detroiter, how Hurricane Sandy inspired her to...
2020-07-2953 min
Radio Cherry BombeThe Afros + Knives Miniseries: Qiana Mickie of Just Food“Food became more and more a revolutionary tool, opposed to what I just put in my body,” says activist Qiana Mickie, the special projects consultant for Just Food, the New York City-based pioneering food justice organization focused on community-driven solutions to inequities in the system. Qiana, who was most recently executive director of the organization, views food as a driver of enterprise, innovation, and equity, and she’s made it her mission to empower community members of color to lead these charges in the food community. Qiana joins Chef Tiffani Rozier, the host of the Afros + Knives podcast, to discus...
2020-07-2245 min
Radio Cherry BombeThe Afros + Knives Miniseries: The Okra Project with Ianne Fields Stewart“I have for a very long time seen that the world was unjust,” said Ianne Fields Stewart, actor, activist, and founder of The Okra Project. “To me, the solutions seem simple.” Ianne, a Black queer nonbinary transfeminine New York-based storyteller, wanted to do something about Black Trans People experiencing a lack of community, family, and food insecurity. The result was The Okra Project, a collective that pays Black Trans chefs to make home-cooked, healthy, and culturally-specific meals. “The joy of looking at someone who’s cooking a meal for you, who’s chosen you, and to see a piece of yourself in...
2020-07-1551 min
Radio Cherry BombeAfros + Knives Mini-Series: Jocelyn Jackson of People’s Kitchen CollectiveWelcome to the first episode of the Afros + Knives mini-series on Radio Cherry Bombe, hosted by Chef Tiffani Rozier. Afros + Knives is a weekly podcast and media platform created by Tiffani that features Black women who work and lead in food, beverage, hospitality, food justice, and food media. “I launched Afros + Knives because I wanted to hear the stories of women who worked in food and look like me,” said Tiffani. “Over the past 15 years, I had always noted the absence of their voices.”For the next four weeks, Tiffani will be talking to women at the intersec...
2020-07-0857 min
Radio Cherry BombeBlack Lives Matter. Black Voices Matter.We’re not airing an episode of Radio Cherry Bombe today. Instead, we’d like you to take the time you spend listening to our show and seek out new voices, in particular food podcasts by Black women. Some suggestions: Afros + Knives by Tiffani Rozier, The Food Truck Scholar by Ariel Smith, the Pro Food Maker Podcast by Mercedes Gosby, A Hungry Society by Korsha Wilson, and Dinner for One by Sutanya Dacres. There are many, many others and we’ll be seeking them out and listening as well. If you know of other Black female-fueled food podcasts, please share...
2020-06-0601 min
Afros+KnivesEpisode Twelve | Black Food FolksBlack Food Folks is a fellowship of black professionals working in food and beverage, food media, and events. The group was co-founded by Brooklyn-based photographer, Clay Willams and Director of Culinary Community Initiatives for the James Beard Foundation, Colleen Vincent. We discuss the necessity of sharing our own food stories, the current challenges facing the community of black food professionals, and what the future could look like for black food.
2020-03-071h 02
Afros+KnivesEpisode Eleven | Grace Ouma-Cabezas"Grace is just your typical Kenyan-Jersey girl—with a love of $2 pizza slices and East African curry that runs equally deep. Growing up in a diverse community in New Jersey, Grace developed an appreciation for the cultural connections in food while going shopping with her mom to recreate dishes from home (which often included an Indian grocer, Korean market, Latin produce stand, and Halal butcher, just to name a few). After finishing college in New Jersey, Grace made her lifelong love of NYC official and moved there in 2007. Before making her way to Food52, she spent a little over a de...
2020-02-271h 06
Afros+KnivesBetween the Seasons with Chef Tiffani | Episode OneWhat to do between the seasons of the Afros and Knives podcast? Keep the conversation going! This first episode of Between the Seasons is just a brief overview of what we'll get into. Host Tiffani is talking about everything from current events to the personal challenges that come with a career in service.
2019-11-1528 min
Afros+KnivesEpisode Ten | Therese NelsonThis week’s conversation is with chef, writer, and black food historian Therese Nelson. This is that unapologetically Black episode… we celebrate the diaspora, the roots of American cuisine, and the future of black foodways.
2019-09-041h 49
Afros+KnivesEpisode Nine | Brittany HutsonThis week’s conversation is with storyteller, writer and creator of the blog Fed and Bougie. Brittany Hutson. We deep dive into black food, food media, and food revolutions.
2019-08-281h 02
Afros+KnivesEpisode Eight | Nicole KearneyThis week’s conversation is with wine luminary, visionary, and leader Nicole Kearney of vegan wine brand Sip and Share Wines. We talk about beginnings, building a legacy and the wisdom of quitting what no longer serves you.
2019-08-2051 min
Afros+KnivesEpisode Seven | Chef Q. IbraheemThis week’s conversation is with Chicago based Chef Q, Founder of the underground dinner experience Ghetto Sesame Street. We talk about beginnings, falling in love with culinary arts, and how food informs family.
2019-08-071h 14
Afros+KnivesBonus ContentAn introduction to the host and creator of the Afros and Knives podcast, Chef Tiffani Rozier. Hear about the inspiration and future plans.
2019-08-0220 min
Afros+KnivesEpisode Six | Angela Burke + Chef Evelyn SheltonThis week’s conversation is chef and owner of Evelyn’s Food Love in Chicago, and Founder of Black Food and Beverage, Angela Burke. We talk about the importance of ownership and community.
2019-07-2450 min
Afros+KnivesEpisode Five | Marcia McCollI chat with Marcia McColl, we talk about her top picks, upcoming events, and the future of Bubbles and Bourbon.
2019-07-1756 min
Afros+KnivesEpisode Four | Catina (Chef Cat) SmithThis week’s conversation is with culinary leader, influencer, and founder of Just Call Me Chef, Chef Cat we explore her cooking history, talk about the community and movement she has created, and examine what the future could look like for young, talent, Black chefs.
2019-07-0859 min
Afros+KnivesEpisode Three | Nina BroadieThis week we introduce the Fresh Voices series…these are conversations with women who are in the early stages of their life in food, wine, or hospitality.I wanted hear about their experiences, get their perspectives, and increase their visibilityToday’s fresh voice is recent culinary school graduate Nina Broadie…let’s dive in…
2019-06-2756 min
Afros+KnivesEpisode Two | Desiree BrownDesiree created Wino Noire to chronicle her experience as a budding wine professional and to share no-nonsense wine tips to help people (especially millennials of color) enjoy wine without the snobbery.
2019-06-121h 02
Afros+KnivesPremiere Episode | Elle SimoneA conversation around culinary journeys, career transitions, representation in media, and the value of rest.
2019-06-111h 05
Afros+KnivesWelcome to the conversationThis is the trailer for the Afros+Knives podcast hosted by Chef Tiffani Rozier, founder of Afros+Knives and Set the Table Media.
2019-06-0202 min