This year, Eater is teaming up with James Beard award-winning Southern Foodways Alliance to spotlight their documentary work, premiering a short film every other week. This next piece focuses on Vietnam war veteran, Roosevelt Brownlee. He spent several years working the jazz festival circuit around Europe and Montreal as a cook to touring musicians including Muddy Waters, Nina Simone, and Dizzy Gillespie. He continues to sell food at festivals closer to his hometown of Savannah, Georgia and. Check it out.
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