{"id":13888,"date":"2024-10-10T13:26:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T13:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=13888"},"modified":"2024-10-10T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T13:35:03","slug":"the-detroit-black-food-and-wine-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/10\/the-detroit-black-food-and-wine-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Detroit Black Food and Wine Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13889\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chef-Mimi-and-guest-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chef-Mimi-and-guest-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chef-Mimi-and-guest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chef-Mimi-and-guest-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chef-Mimi-and-guest-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chef-Mimi-and-guest.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Mimi and guest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>By Donnetta Carter, The Social Butterfly<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Special to The Truth<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Black Food and Wine Experience was held on Saturday, September 14, 2024 at the historic State Savings Bank building in downtown Detroit, Mi. The Black Food and Wine\u00a0 Experience Detroit was truly a unique experience and as you enter the venue all guests received a large wine glass with the Experience logo as a souvenir.<\/p>\n<p>We were able to taste various wines from Black-owned wineries and sample numerous cuisines such as Curt Got Crabs, Irie Bites, Carib Fusion Cuisine and many more. There was also culinary competition between two chefs with a live demonstration of their favorite cuisines prepared for the guests.<\/p>\n<p>The ambiance of the venue was extraordinary with display table of vendors with their products and a female DJ rocking with different genres of music while guests were dressed with the theme of dresses, gowns and suits with sneakers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Donnetta-Carter-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Donnetta-Carter-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Donnetta-Carter-284x250.jpg 284w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Donnetta-Carter.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donnetta Carter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aminah &#8220;Chef Mimi&#8221; Robinson-Briscoe is the founder of the Black Food and Wine Experience. Chef Mimi is an Oakland, California native and a graduate of the California Culinary Arts Academy in San Francisco. Since 2016 the Black Food and Wine Experience has supported more than 150 Bay area businesses. Chef Mimi\u2019s concepts generate revenue,\u00a0customers and growth for small businesses. This has enhanced sales by more than $1 million and added 50 jobs to the food service industry in the Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>Chef Mimi\u2019s mission is to create a platform that enhances and celebrates Black food and beverage to promote diversity and connect and fosters meaning collaborations and connections.<\/p>\n<p>Chef Mimi traveled the Food and Wine Experience on the road for the first time to the City of Detroit, MI and she plans to travel to Atlanta, Georgia in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Donnetta Carter, The Social Butterfly Special to The Truth The Black Food and Wine Experience was held on Saturday, September 14, 2024 at the historic State Savings Bank building in downtown Detroit, Mi. The Black Food and Wine\u00a0 Experience Detroit was truly a unique experience and as you enter the venue all guests received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[257],"class_list":["post-13888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13891,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888\/revisions\/13891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13888"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=13888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}