Vertamae Grosvenor Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (born 1938 in Hampton County, South Carolina) is a culinary anthropologist/griot, food writer, and broadcaster on public media.She is known for her cookbook-memoir, Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl (1970). She has also appeared in several films, including Daughters of the Dust (1992), about a Gullah family in 1902, at a time of transition on the Sea Islands; and Beloved (1998), based on the Toni Morrison novel.
She is the author of an influential autobiographical book celebrating Gullah culture. She was a regular contributor to NPR and host of her own television cooking show. She was active in the civil rights and Black Power movements.
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She was survived by her two daughters Kali Grosvenor-Henry, a poet, author, and essayist and Chandra Weinland-Brown, an actor, visual artist and poet, along with two grandchildren. Chandra's father was Oscar Weinland, a sculptor.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Beloved
1998
Grace
Daughters of the Dust
1991
Hair Braider
Personal Problems
1980
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Beloved
1998
culinary consultant
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
2017
Documentary filming
Herself
The Meaning of Food
2004
TV Mini-Series documentary
Herself
Goin' to Chicago
2001
TV Movie documentary
Narrator
The Language You Cry In
1998
Documentary
Himself - Narrator
Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White
1998
TV Movie documentary
Zora Neale Hurston (voice)
The Americas' Family Kitchen with Vertamae Grosven
1996
TV Series
Herself - Host
Known for movies
Beloved (1998) as Grace
Daughters of the Dust (1991) as Hair Braider
Personal Problems (1980) as Actress
Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White (1998) as Zora Neale Hurston
$300,000
