Donna Battle Pierce

Donna Battle Pierce is the journalist and archivist who has kept the Freda DeKnight / Ebony Magazine tradition of Black food writing alive. Her Skillet Diaries column and her ongoing archival work on Black women cookbook authors fills in a record the mainstream food press forgot to keep.

Her work is a reminder that the canon is not only in books but in newspaper columns, community cookbooks, and the Ebony test kitchen.