Press Inquires
All press inquiries should be directed to OMK directors, Khaliah + Shivon: hey@ourmotherskitchens.org. Additional resources can be found on our About, Programs and Gallery pages. Please honor all photo / video credits.
Features
WHYY | Movers & Makers, S2E1, Aired 4/23/20
Movers & Makers: Pioneering Women
From community builders to educational innovators, meet the women leading Philadelphia into the future. Artist Michelle Ortiz, the AIM Academy co-founders, the Center for Art in Wood, and the creators of Our Mothers' Kitchens are all featured.
Photo by Gabrielle Clark
Recipes For “Cultural nourishment and spiritual food”
For Alice, Zora embodied the “disciplined loving authority of the grandmother spirit of the earth.” “It is the grandmother spirit—the strong grandmother, the centered grandmother, the no-nonsense grandmother—that’s what’s missing in this culture,” Alice tells Vertamae. “That’s who should be speaking to us now. In this hour.”
Photo by Adachi Pimental
Feminist Magazine August 27: Title X / Toni Morrison / Our Mother’s Kitchens
Cherise Charleswell talks to community educator, advocate, and author Shivon Pearl Love and poet, author, and health educator Khaliah D. Pitts; co-founders of Our Mothers’ Kitchens, a culinary and literature project, produced for black folk who are looking to reconnect to their cultural heritages, tell their own stories and plant their mothers’ seeds.
Photo by Gabrielle Clark
‘Without culture, you’re lost’: Our Mothers’ Kitchens reclaims black womanhood through food and writing
For Khaliah D. Pitts and Shivon Pearl Love, cooking is activism. It’s art. It’s prayer. The pair, self-described “sister-friends" and native Philadelphians, have created a family of projects that aim to celebrate black womanhood and culture through cooking and literature.
Photo by Gabrielle Clark
Crafting a Space to Write, Cook, and Celebrate Black Women’s History
Working collectively as Our Mothers’ Kitchens, A Blade of Grass Fellows Khaliah D. Pitts and Shivon Love preserve black literary and culinary history by honoring black women writers through a series of intimate community dinners in Philadelphia.
Photo by Adachi Pimental
Culinary meets literature in Our Mothers’ Kitchens
Janyce Denise Glasper speaks with Shivon Pearl Love and Khaliah D. Pitts, founders of Our Mothers’ Kitchens, a culinary/ literature project created by and for black people. Check out this interview to learn more about the project, which celebrates four black women authors, and its accompanying Summer Camp for black girls!
Photo by Alex Jones
Eat This Now: Survival Menu at the Philadelphia Assembled Kitchen
Community cooks are telling stories through food at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Photo by Alex Jones
Food, Culture, & Race are Part of the Exhibit at this MUSEUM
Philadelphia Assembled uses foodways to share stories of survival, resistance, and victory.
