May 12, Tuesday -- If "fresh" and "healthy" aren't the first adjectives that come to mind when you think of soul food, Oakland-based "eco-chef" Bryant Terry has recipes and ideas that may surprise you. Terry, currently a fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, uses cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections between poverty, racism and food insecurity. He will talk about his ideas, and sign copies of his new cookbook, "Vegan Soul Kitchen," from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 12.

Terry's talk, "Redefining Soul Food: Politics and Pleasures of Food & Eating in Black Communities," will take place in the Sensory Theatre at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Science at UC Davis. A light vegan lunch, inspired by Terry's recipes, will be served.

The Black Family Week event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the UC Davis Humanities Institute, Robert Mondavi Institute, Foods for Health Institute, UC Davis Extension Program, African American Studies Research Cluster and East Quad Farmers Market. For more information, contact Kimberly Nettles at kdnettles@ucdavis.edu.

For more Black Family Week programs and information, visit: spac.ucdavis.edu/programs/bfw