Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (born 1938 in Hampton County, South Carolina) is a culinary anthropologist/griot, food writer, and broadcaster on public media.She is known for her cookbook-memoir, Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl (1970). She has also appeared in several films, including Daughters of the Dust (1992), about a Gullah family in 1902, at a time of transition on the Sea Islands; and Beloved (1998), based on the Toni Morrison novel.