July 20, 2021
Partners
Chef
Adrienne Cheatham
Chef Adrienne Cheatham grew up in the kitchens and dining rooms of the restaurants her mother managed in Chicago, Illinois.
Adrienne went on to work with Marcus Samuelsson as the Chef de Cuisine of the Marcus Samuelsson Group, opening Streetbird, where she received a Bib Gourmand from the Michelin Guide, and Marcus’ Bermuda before being promoted to Executive Chef at Red Rooster. Adrienne also travelled extensively with Chef Marcus for demonstrations, appearances, and festivals. Adrienne curated special tasting menus, including the Black History Month menu at Red Rooster, a multi-course menu inspired by female African-American chefs in the industry. When planning the Red Rooster Cookbook, Marcus tapped Adrienne to test and edit the recipes as well as cook/style all food that was photographed for the book.
Adrienne competed on season 15 of Top Chef, making it all the way to the finale and finishing second. She has been featured as a speaker at Cherry Bombe Magazine’s annual Jubilee festival and was the subject of a New York Times documentary series titled “Tastemakers.” Passionate about nutrition, she works with Schwan’s as part of the Chef’s Collective to develop healthy food for school lunch programs. Adrienne has appeared in Food & Wine, US Weekly, Sports Illustrated online, People, Grubstreet, Eater, AM New York, among others. Adrienne shares a home in Harlem with her best friend and husband, Stephen Bailey. She is also the founder of SundayBest, a pop-up series held in secret locations around Harlem.
Ceramics
Dina Nur Satti
Nur Ceramics
Dina Nur Satti is a Brooklyn-based ceramic artist from Sudan and Somalia who was raised in France and Kenya. She often travels through Africa to meet with communities upholding ancient methods of craft, and to research the use of objects in indigenous ceremonies.
Dina connected to clay as a medium not only because of a passion for design and craft. Ceramics is a vessel, a container through which she explores ideas of personal purpose and growth, as well as our collective transitions, cultural storytelling, and communal rituals.
Flowers
LaParis Phillips
Brooklyn Blooms
LaParis Phillips is a St. Louis native, and has lived in NYC for 11 years. Her love of flowers and creating started at her family’s balloon shop, Balloons Unlimited. Although she worked mostly with balloons she was always interested in the flowers. During her college years, while studying fashion marketing, with the desire to learn another skill while in college since NYC was her next move. She decided to work at a flower shop where she would learn the foundation of florsity and the inner workings of the flower business.
In 2015, LaParis started Brooklyn Blooms in her BedStuy apartment with the desire to fill the void in the weddings & events industry. Since then she has created on Caribbean beaches, landed a Micheal’s campaign, created for countless weddings and events, and fulfilled thousands of daily orders. She has recently expanded, opening a larger location on Fulton Ave. in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
Pottery
Amos III
A3 Pottery
Amos currently lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with his partner Tim, their pup Lela and over 200 plants. Each available product is one-of-a-kind, hand made and assembled in his studio in Gowanus.