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“In Gather, Dr. Ashanté M. Reese serves us a warm plate of berry pie while reminding us that the food justice we seek is among us already. If we are going to build a world where no one’s needs are unmet, Reese argues, we need to move beyond our echo chambers and wake up to the answers that have been right here all along.”
— Leah Penniman, Co-Founder of Soul Fire Farm, and author of Farming While Black and Black Earth Wisdom
“Gather is a luminous, deeply felt meditation on nourishment, memory, and collective care. With grace and rigor, Dr. Ashanté M. Reese invites us to reconsider what it means to feed and be fed—body, spirit, and community alike. Moving between kitchen tables, gardens, and reunions, she reminds us that the struggle for food justice is also a struggle for belonging and freedom. This book is both testimony and offering: an archive of Black aliveness and a blueprint for how we might all live more tenderly, more intentionally, and more together.”
— Bryant Terry, James Beard and NAACP Image Award–winning author of Black Food and Vegetable Kingdom