About the Presenter
Ramin Ganeshram is a culinary historian and executive director of Westport Museum for History & Culture in Westport, CT. Ganeshram studies the foodways of African-descendant and mixed race communities in colonial and early Federal America as well as the English-speaking Caribbean.
Ganeshram’s forthcoming books include Coal Pots & King Cane: Caribbean Foodways and the Making of America (UNC Press 2026) and Stirring Liberty: How George Washington’s Enslaved Chef Transformed American Cuisine and Secretly Cooked His Way to Freedom (Simon & Schuster/37Ink 2026).
She is considered the foremost expert on Hercules Posey, the chef enslaved by George and Martha Washington.