Peggy Brunache

Peggy Brunache is a Haitian American food historian and archaeologist. She currently lives in Perth and lectures at the University of Glasgow on the History of Atlantic slavery. Brunache has contributed to various BBC programs and is involved with an annual food festival in Perth called the Southern Fried Food Festival.

Biography Brunache is Haitian American in heritage and grew up in Miami, Florida. In college, she pursued anthropology and then became involved with a field school run by Kathleen Deagan at St. Augustine, Florida. Brunache earned her master's degree at the University of South Carolina and then earned her doctorate at the University of Texas.

In May 2006, she moved to Scotland to be closer to Andy Shearer. Her work for her thesis pointed to the origins of modern Creole cuisine and Soul Food. These women significantly contributed to the cuisine of the region. She has also been featured in the BBC Two history series, A Black History of Britain.

Brunache lectures at the University of Glasgow. In 2016, she was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship to do an excavation of the first integrated school in Ohio, the Parker Academy.