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After 50 years, ‘Vibration Cooking’ still resonates

Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor called herself a culinary griot. Raised in Philadelphia, she wrote cookbooks, she was an actress, a researcher of black domestic workers, and a longtime NPR contributor.

Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, author of the celebrated cookbook "Vibration Cooking" was raised in Philadelphia.
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, author of the celebrated cookbook "Vibration Cooking" was raised in Philadelphia.Read moreTravel Notes of a Geechee Girl: The Lifestory of Vertamae-Smart Grosvenor.