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Chef Bella Jones

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Culinary Disruptor
Black Foodways Historian & Griot
Curator of
OdeToTheBlackChef™️ &
@lizandleons
New South Chef Member
@thenewsouthatl

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Getting ready for another edition of Gemini: The parlor sessions this Sunday July 26th
Invites have been sent, seats have been secured & I can’t wait tell Zora Neale Hurston Story on a plate

If you missed this rendition don’t worry, the wait list opens again this Tuesday for August 29th! I can’t wait to share the august story theme with yall!

If you are on the list please check your email as location and details go out tomorrow morning.

Im Chef Bella & I tell black stories through food by @chefbellajones

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A little rain couldn’t dim the work. The New South showed up in every lane — chefs, creators, and restaurants moving as one. It poured, it cleared, and then the sun hit just in time for guests to taste what our collective is all about: craft, culture, and community. Peach Fest 2026 was a moment.

#TheNewSouth #TheNewSouthCollective
#AtlantaPeachFest

Thank you again to @atlpeachfest for having us and to @chef_works for our #NewSouthAtl aprons!

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Gemini Parlor Sessions : Session 01 “The life & times of Zora Neal Hurston

Menu Reveal: An esteemed life in 3 Acts

I am Chef Bella & I tell Black Stories through food..

Join the waitlist to be invited! Link in Bio by @chefbellajones

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25 days ago

I’m Chef Bella Jones & I tell Black stories through food.

This one belongs to Zora Neal Hurston.

Eatonville to Harlem to Haiti & Jamaica. Three acts, six courses, one woman who gave us a seat at the table.

The Life and Times of Zora Neal Hurston. Session 01 of my Gemini: The Parlor Session Series. July 26th.

Want to be invited. Join the waitlist. Link In Bio by @chefbellajones

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We are losing our cultural traditions and we don’t even realize it.

I don’t remember the last time I cooked or sat down for Sunday dinner & that got me thinking and writing.

Sunday dinner was more than having a meal, it is our way of remembering what our ancestors endured & we owe it to them to keep it alive. Sunday was the only day they had to be free, to cook and to pray that one day we will get to experience freedom to cook what we want when we want.

The elders are leaving us and we have a duty to not let 400 years of tradition disappear with them.

Let’s get back to the table. Head over to my substack & read Sunday Dinners & the table nobody is setting…. Link in bio by @chefbellajones

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The Chicago Mississippian: A ode to my roots that are took shape on the South Side of a Chicago by way of The delta of MISSISSIPPI

Chicago Style Rib tips
Watermelon Mild Sauce
Roasted Sweet Potato Salad with kale, pomegranate seed, feta cheese & a Pomegranate Vin!

I had the privilege of honoring our black collective history & celebrate freedoms this Juneteenth with my @thenewsouthatl team! I call it privilege because I get to work with a group of chefs that inspire me to be better, literal Iron sharpening Iron! & a privilege to celebrate the history they want us to forget!

This dish was authentically me & truest reflection of a Chicagoan whose people made the courages decision to leave the Mississippi Delta so that I can be here today to be PROUD & FREE! by @chefbellajones

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I need to be more intentional about posting my creations!

This Dish I made a little while back when a few of my teammates on the New South & I did hosted a dinner for some heavy hitters in town for the weekend!

I created a Gemini esque dish that put me on a plate: Whiskey Glaze Pork Belly with A Sweet Potato & PR Batata purées, pan fried okra, sofrito verde & a achiote oil.

This dish bridges my dual heritages. Being both a Black American & A Afro Puerto Rican, I have a very special responsibility to bring my diasporic heritages together by @chefbellajones

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POV: You’ve got people seated at long tables on a Sunday night, and you’re one of the Chefs telling a story, not with words, but with food.

On June 14th, The New South Collective hosted a Juneteenth dinner where each course represented a piece of Black culture. Dishes prepared by the collective spoke to the Lowcountry, to the Great Migration, and to the Southern kitchens that raised us.

Course by course, we honored the flavors that carried our people through joy, struggle, celebration, and liberation.

Grateful for Chef Carlos for hosting, Southern National for allowing us to take over their kitchen , and all the Chefs on our team and Navigate culinary students who showed up with heart, history, and heat and for a community that received it with so much love.

#TheNewSouthAtl
#JuneteenthDinner #BlackCulinaryExcellence #SouthernNational by @chefbellajones

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I made a deal with God that If I have to return to this earth in a different lifetime that I would only on the condition that I AM BLACK EVERY LIFETIME because their is NO JOY like BLACK JOY!

My people faced & still face the worst of the worst but through it all we find JOY! We built the most ICONIC & IMITATED CULTURE around the world so much so that everybody wanna be a FOUNDATION BLACK AMERICAN!

They tried to everything they could to stop us, from forced enslavement, to racial terrorism known as Jim Crow to locking our children away for defending themselves & yet through it all WE THRIVE, WE FLOURISH & WE STILL FIND JOY!

Happy JUNETEENTH TO MY PEOPLE!!!!! by @chefbellajones

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Gemini: The Parlor Sessions is my monthly invite only dinner series honoring the figures, movements & culture of Black & diasporic history & present.

Limited seats. A multi-course menu built around a single cultural story. Each dish is documentation. Each evening is a room where something work preserving gets celebrated.

Session 01: The Life & times of Zora Neale Hurston
July 26,2026 I 6pm

Join the waitlist for a chance to receive a invitation by @chefbellajones

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The Dates are Here.

Gemini: The Parlor Sessions begin with an evening honoring Zora Neal Hurston. Three geographies. One woman who refused to let her people’s culture disappear. A menu built from the places that made her.

Session 02 follows on August 29th with a ODE to a King.
Some things deserve their own announcement. So Stay close.

Both Sessions are Invite only so join the wait list. Very Limited Seating. If you’re already on the waitlist, your invitation is coming.

Waitlist link in bio. by @chefbellajones

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2 months ago

Whew! We are almost there! Sunday can’t come soon enough… did you get your tickets yet? 👀

Meet us at @southernnationalatl for our Juneteenth Celebration Dinner Sunday, June 14th at 5pm🍾✨

We can’t wait for you to experience the menu we have prepared… rain or shine, we are ready to make sure you have a great time!

Click the link in the bio for your tickets 🎟️ taken in Southern National Atlanta by @chefbellajones

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