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Food carries memory, history and the stories of those who came before us. 🌿

In our conversation with Margo Gabriel (@margoscreativelife), we talk about Black foodways, ancestry, identity and what it means to decolonize our relationship with food.

🎙️ Cooking with Memory: Decolonizing Food & Black Ancestry | Margo Gabriel

Watch the full videocast on YouTube or listen on Spotify. 🧡

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Some interviews feel like a full-circle moment.

I first met Sara four years ago when she reached out while finishing her master’s degree. She wanted to learn about my experience as a Black American journalist living in Portugal. Not long after, she offered to help me learn Portuguese, and over the years, she and her sister Leia have become friends whose wisdom, generosity, and commitment to Afro-diasporic communities I deeply admire.

Today, I’m so happy to share the conversation we recorded together for Afroeuropeu.

We talk about food as memory.
Food as ancestry.
Food as resistance.
Food as love.

As a Haitian American, so much of my work is rooted in the belief that recipes are archives and that every meal carries stories of migration, survival, and joy.

Thank you, Sara and Leia, for creating spaces where these conversations can live and for your friendship over the years. ❤️

If this conversation speaks to you, I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway after you watch it.

🎥 Link in bio.

Photo credit: Jeanne Pasquet

#Afroeuropeu #Mukiidi #FoodStories #HaitianAmerican #BlackDiaspora #Margoscreativelife #Portugal #FoodJournalist #Culture #Storytelling #Ancestry #Diaspora #Journalism #CreativeLife

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👋🏽 Hi friends,

With so many new faces here, I thought it was time to say ‘hello’ again.

I’m Margo, a Haitian American journalist, editor, and cultural producer from Boston, now based in Lisbon, Portugal.

In 2020, I moved here to pursue my journalism career full-time. What I didn’t know then was that it would lead me far beyond the page.

Today, my work sits at the intersection of food, wine, art, film, and culture. Some days I’m interviewing filmmakers and creatives through Creative Current (@creativecurrent.interviews). Recent conversations include actress T’Nia Miller, art collector Paulo Akam, actor Matamba Joaquim, artist Blackson Afonso, Inès and Tom, the winemakers of Delância, and fashion designer Roselyn Silva. Other days you’ll find me writing stories, moderating conversations, producing intimate dinners, or collaborating with chefs, artists, and brands to create meaningful experiences rooted in community.

No matter the medium, I’m always interested in one thing: telling stories that help us better understand people, place, and culture.

Here, I’ll be sharing the people, places, and moments that inspire me, from Portugal and beyond, while exploring Black and African diasporic cultures through food, travel, creativity, and conversation.

Whether you’ve been here from the beginning or you’ve just joined, thank you for being here. 🤎
I’d love to get to know you too.

Where are you joining me from, and what kind of stories would you love to see more of here?

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Some conversations stay with you long after they’re over.

When I sat down with T’Nia Miller, we spoke about much more than acting. We talked about the women who shaped her childhood, the stories shared around her grandmother’s table, the sanctuary she found in theater, and why she’s creating a space in Portugal where artists, chefs, musicians, and communities can come together.

Her warmth, humor, honesty, and generosity shine through every part of this conversation.

I’m so excited to share my latest Creative Current interview:

Creative Current: T’Nia Miller on Storytelling and Sanctuary

I hope you’ll take a few moments to read it. I have a feeling you’ll walk away inspired, just as I did.

🔗 Link in bio.

Creative Current is a global interview series documenting culture, identity and creative lives.

📸: Joseph Sinclair

#CreativeCurrent #TNiaMiller #Storytelling #Community #Creativity #Artists #Culture #Actor #Portugal #InterviewSeries #Portugal #GlobalInterviewSeries #Media #TheGaff #London #Jamaica

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Honored to be featured in Bold Journey today.

Nearly a decade of writing, a lifelong love of storytelling, and a belief that the best work comes from staying curious, that’s really what this conversation is about.

Grateful for the people and experiences that have shaped the journey, and excited for what’s next with Creative Current, my workshops, and my writing.

Full feature linked in bio. 🖤

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Barcelona, this is your invitation to celebrate black freedom, culture and community with us✨

Join us for a full day of music, food, art, joy and connection on June 20th. From live performances to incredible food and beautiful art, expect beautiful energy all day long.

We’re bringing the diaspora and our allies together for something special 🎉

📍Roots Gastro Club, Barcelona
🗓 Saturday, June 20, 2026
🎟 Tickets available now via link in bio

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Sometimes the moments that remind you how far you’ve come arrive quietly.

This week was one of them. I had the privilege of speaking at Mensagem de Lisboa’s curated presentation, Mensagem ao Vivo, as part of the European Press Prize event at the Gulbenkian Foundation, in front of 80+ journalists and media professionals, about food, identity, and what it means to document Portugal as a Black American woman from the outside in.

Six years in this country. Still learning. Still grateful.

#europeanpressprize #mensagemdelisboa #gulbenkian #journalism #portugal

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I bet on myself. Portugal was proof.

Six years ago, I packed my life into a few suitcases and left the United States. And with that move, I had the belief that the risk was worth taking. I can attest that it has paid off tremendously.

This week, I’m speaking at the European Press Prize in Lisbon, one of the most prestigious journalism honors in Europe, alongside editors, journalists, and media professionals from across the continent.

What followed was years of documenting food culture, migration, and the stories that connect people across borders. Through meals shared with strangers, chefs, artists, immigrants, and neighbors, I found a way to understand Portugal that no guidebook could have given me.

Food became my greatest teacher. And this journey (the rebuilding, the questioning, the unexpected belonging) became my life’s work.

Thank you Mensagem de Lisboa, for hosting this week’s program.

I’ll be sharing more from the room this week. Stay tuned.

#EuropeanPressPrize #Journalism #FoodCulture #Lisbon #Portugal #FoodJournalist

Last slide credit for 📸: @guillermovidal_ph

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New on Creative Current: V. Sheree Williams.

James Beard Award-winning editor and publisher of Cuisine Noir and founder of The Global Food and Drink Initiative, V. Sheree Williams has spent over a decade reshaping how we document Black foodways, centering truth, cultural memory, and global connection across the African diaspora.

She works at the intersection of journalism and preservation, challenging who tells stories and how they are told.

In this interview, she reflects on her journey into media, the realities of building an independent publication, and why storytelling must move beyond visibility into record.

A defining voice in food media, and a conversation worth sitting with.

Read the full interview at the link in bio.

#CreativeCurrent #CuisineNoir #GFDI #TheGlobalFoodAndDrinkInitiative #JamesBeardAwards #WomenInMedia #BlackWomenInMedia #DiasporaFoodStories

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Thank you @ashiaaubourg and @wineenthusiast for including my voice in this special piece about one of my favorite Haitian beverages, kremas. ✨

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If countries had a love language, Portugal’s might be food. Slow meals. Local wine. Quiet generosity. No rush.

I sat down with Dylan Herholdt for his podcast Portugal – The Simple Life to talk about why Portuguese food culture is so deeply underrated — and how it’s shaped the way I live, eat, and write here.

This conversation felt less like an interview and more like a shared table moment.
 Grateful for the space to reflect out loud.

Link in bio.

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