{"product_id":"the-last-taste-of-summer","title":"The Last Taste of Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Last Taste of Summer — Harlem, New York\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis dinner is a homecoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy mother was raised on 119th \u0026amp; Manhattan Avenue. My Jamaican father was raised in Harlem, too. I was raised in the South, but New York was where I spent my summers — riding the train to Washington Heights and Co-op City, walking 125th past the Apollo, eating turkey and cheese on a roll from the bodega, cherry coco icees in hand while fire hydrants turned the block into a playground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is an energy to summer in New York that is almost impossible to describe. \u003cstrong\u003eThe city shifts. The people shift. The whole demeanor changes.\u003c\/strong\u003e Everybody is outside. The streets have a soundtrack. Music spills from cars, bodegas and apartment windows. The heat sits between the buildings. The sidewalks become gathering places. Somehow, the city feels both chaotic and completely in rhythm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a feeling I have spent my whole life trying to put into words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSo instead, I'm putting it on a plate.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYears later, after graduating from FAMU, I moved to the Bronx and rode the train downtown every Monday to perform poetry at the Nuyorican. Before I told stories through food, I told them on a stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Last Taste of Summer is where those stories meet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough \u003cstrong\u003efive courses of pure storytelling\u003c\/strong\u003e, I'll take you from my mother's childhood in Harlem, through the New York summers that made me, to the Caribbean and Southern flavors that eventually shaped the woman — and the chef — I became.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEach course is a chapter. Each plate, a memory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn intimate, elevated dinner inspired by the beautiful collision of Harlem, the Caribbean, the American South and the cultures that make New York unlike anywhere else in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is my love letter to the city that raised my mother, shaped my family and gave me some of my sweetest memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd this time, I get to bring my mother home and set the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarlem, New York\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeptember 20, 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCome hungry. We're going to taste our way through a New York summer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sunni Speaks LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49036944113818,"sku":null,"price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/5602\/8314\/files\/Miamididyoumissme-2_1.jpg?v=1787181791","url":"https:\/\/www.sunnispeaksvegan.com\/products\/the-last-taste-of-summer","provider":"Sunni Speaks LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}