New Magazine Launches at the Intersection of Black Food, Wine, and Culture

VISTAS is a brand new bimonthly print publication that provides a multicultural perspective for foodies and oenophiles.

Nationwide — Soul of Sonoma Connoisseur, LLC proclaims the launch of VISTAS, an impartial print journal dedicated to the cultural exploration of meals and wine from BIPOC purveyors. VISTAS celebrates the epicurean expertise of the African diaspora with skilled content material throughout the journal, web site, social platforms, and premium sponsored occasions. With seasonal recipes, must-visit eating places, artistic drinks, culinary journey, and wellness protection, VISTAS is positioned to encourage and empower its readers to find, recognize, and devour the perfect that the ever-expanding world of multicultural meals and wine has to supply.

Printed six instances per yr, VISTAS is made by and for wine fans who take pleasure in studying about, supporting, and celebrating underrepresented and underreported changemakers within the culinary and wine industries. Generational recipes, winemakers, historic cocktails, meals locations, revolutionary eating places, and extra encourage the pages of this new shiny journal. VISTAS caters to inquisitive and adventurous readers, who’re desperate to delve into culturally impressed culinary strategies comparable to how you can make the proper roux, gourmand meal planning, wine pairing like an skilled, and naturally scrumptious recipes from featured cooks of shade.

Lovely images, thought-provoking essays, and life-style content material will spherical out the reader expertise accented by a wealthy cultural tapestry of culinary and viticultural tales and views that may be present in no different publication.

A particular version was launched on Martha’s Winery in August, and the primary official print subject was mailed in November that includes Kwanzaa recipes by Chef Cynthia Anderson and an article on award-winning winemaker Theodora Lee’s two-decade journey as a winemaker. VISTAS options thought-provoking tales on hospitality environments like again of home, entrance of home, in vineyards, and on farms. Points will comprise recurring articles, comparable to “Etiquette for Epicureans,” that includes tips about how you can toast, style, and be an excellent tablemate; “Vacation spot X,” which affords insights into culinary traditions of the African diaspora from world wide; “Prepare dinner the Books,” that includes an inventory of must-read books from authors of shade for meals followers, and “What’s in Your Cellar?” which showcases considerate wine collections from influential personalities.

Themed points will embody tales throughout the journal’s six main topical areas: seasonal wine information, culinary information, artwork and tradition, journey and resorts, wellness and leisure, and holidays and entertaining. Authenticity and keenness for sharing the thrilling and compelling tales of BIPOC professionals within the meals and wine {industry}, which regularly solely obtain protection throughout Black Historical past Month, drives featured tales, with the purpose of encouraging new consciousness and new conversations.

“VISTAS goals to supply a novel view on the state of variety within the black meals and wine worlds. There may be the context of historical past and cultural influences – each by way of who’s within the kitchen and who’s making wine that usually goes unexplored. We plan to carry to mild the artistry of their work,” says Patrice Davenport, VISTAS founder and writer.

VISTAS won’t shrink back from controversial subjects and also will spotlight inequalities within the meals and wine world, comparable to authorities packages just like the American Homestead Act of 1862, which doled out low-cost land parcels completely to white recipients. By the point the act was repealed in 1976, 270 million acres had been transferred to 1.6 million folks. African American households proceed to be impacted by systemic exclusion: In 2002, statistics confirmed that white folks owned 98% of personal U.S. agricultural land.

Based on Bloomberg, solely 0.1% of your complete wine {industry} within the U.S. in 2020 was Black-owned. In 2021, Information-Press reported that solely .06% of wineries had been Black-owned and a 2019 survey of wine-industry professionals discovered that solely 2% of respondents recognized as Black or African.

“VISTAS educates readers on compelling accounts of black farmers and winemakers who’ve systematically been pressured out of the agricultural {industry} by way of ill-gotten means whereas highlighting triumphant tales which have performed an integral and sometimes unsung position in our meals tradition and neighborhood,” Davenport notes.

VISTAS options an revolutionary method to promoting partnerships, reconsidering the normal media-advertiser mannequin to drive change and optimistic influence. The journal options video content material accessible by way of QR codes and likewise works to align with promoting companions to mutually assist organizations targeted on enhancing the Black meals and wine neighborhood at massive by way of consciousness and monetary assist.

Within the coming months, VISTAS readers will devour their favourite content material through a spread of digital codecs, from the web site at VistasMagazine.com and a publication with a objective to launch a YouTube channel with spinoff video content material and particular occasion protection. VISTAS brings its pages to life by way of media sponsorship of long-running occasions comparable to Soul of Sonoma on the Winery to imminent occasions such because the inaugural VISTAS Meals and Wine Awards and Gala scheduled for mid-2024.

To have fun the discharge of the primary official subject, VISTAS is internet hosting the inaugural Kwanzaa Extravaganza, a seven-course wine pairing dinner in Los Angeles on December 28 and 29, 2023, at 1010 Wine and Occasions. To study extra about this and different occasions, go to www.soulofsonoma.com/occasions

AboutVISTAS is a nationwide journal that curates the perfect in black meals, wine, journey, wellness, and residential leisure. The journal’s shiny pages pop with wealthy images complemented by informative articles. The publication is out there in print and digitally, and may be accessed by way of SoulofSonoma.com; social media channels with future plans for cookbooks, personal occasions for subscribers, and extra.

VISTAS was created to encourage and empower our wine- and food-loving neighborhood to eat, drink, entertain, and journey with intention. The journal is presently accessible for buy as single-issue copies ($20) or annual subscriptions (6 points, $89). Points can even be distributed to pick premium hospitality places all through the U.S.

For press inquiries, contact vistasmag@gmail.com or (877) 550-3003