Vonnie Williams

Location: New York, New York

Vonnie Williams is a first-generation Ghanaian-American food writer who contributed a piece to Serious Eats about Filipino food and its relationship to migration, colonization, and the concept of authenticity.
Her writing on food and food culture has been published by the likes of Food & Wine, TASTE, Edible Brooklyn, and Gastro Obscura, and she’s also written travel guides for Atlas Obscura.
Vonnie loves travel, photography, pop culture, and ice cream, the latter of which she consumes more of than she should admit.

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Vonnie Williams is a food writer who wrote for Serious Eats about the effects that migration, colonization, and the concept of authenticity have had on Filipino cuisine. As a first-generation Ghanaian-American writer in an industry lacking voices like her own, she shares her perspectives on food and food culture in pieces written for Food & Wine, TASTE, Edible Brooklyn, and others. Vonnie has also edited travel guides for Atlas Obscura and been published by Gastro Obscura, a James Beard Award-nominated food and travel site.

Vonnie loves cooking—especially the easiest recipes in her cookbooks—and eats more ice cream than she should admit.

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