I’m Tiffani. I usually tell people I’m a storyteller, but the truth is I’m just professionally obsessed with the friction where food and culture rub against each other. I spent years in professional kitchens — the kind of environment that either breaks you or gives you a very specific kind of rhythm — and now I spend my time archiving the stories of Black women in the industry through my project, the Afros & Knives Oral History Project.

When I’m not digging into oral histories or consulting on audio, I’m usually deep in the weeds of my first novel, The Larder Society. I’m a bit of a ‘Main Character’ by nature — a Manifestor, if you’re into Human Design — so I tend to see the world in big, sweeping arcs and vivid sensory details. I’m a firm believer that the best conversations happen over a meal that took way too long to prepare.