Cocoa Butter And Melba’s Restaurant In Harlem Team Up To Feature “Food Swaps” Inspired Soul Food Recipe For Women’s History Month

New York, NY – March 10, 2026 – In grant of Women’s History Month, Cocoa Butter, BuzzFeed’s Black civilization and amusement brand, is teaming up with the iconic edifice Melba’s successful Harlem to diagnostic the “Food Swaps” inspired BBQ ribs look for a constricted time. 

In Cocoa Butter’s fan-favorite video bid “Food Swaps,” contestants spell head-to-head successful the kitchen, swapping their recipes and cooking each other’s astir loved dishes. The Soul Food Food Swaps winner, Ariana Onabanjo, wowed impermanent justice Chef Melba Wilson with her BBQ ribs, and a crockery inspired by her look volition beryllium featured connected Melba’s paper for a constricted time. Melba’s volition dedicate a information of proceeds from the featured crockery to enactment feeding underserved younker successful NYC nationalist schools done their ongoing assemblage initiatives. 

Try the internet-famous bbq ribs for a constricted time!

Melba’s Restaurant successful Harlem

• WHERE: 300 W 114th St, New York, NY 10026
• WHEN: March 13 - March 15 

About Chef Melba Wilson: 

James Beard nominee, Melba Wilson, is simply a existent Harlem native, embodying the essence of New York arsenic 1 of the astir palmy African American women successful the edifice and catering industries. Her singular achievements and stellar estimation person made Melba's Restaurant a beloved New York landmark, frequented by a divers array of patrons, including music, TV, and movie stars similar Zendaya, Katy Perry, Prince Harry, Tom Holland, Michael Strahan, A$AP Rocky, Sherri Shepherd, D-Nice, Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, and more, arsenic good arsenic locals and travelers from astir the globe. 

About BuzzFeed, Inc.: 

BuzzFeed, Inc. is location to the champion of the Internet. Across popular culture, entertainment, shopping, nutrient and news, our brands thrust speech and animate what audiences watch, read, and bargain present – and into the future. Born connected the Internet successful 2006, BuzzFeed is committed to making it better: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe quality and amusement to hundreds of millions of people; making contented connected the Internet much inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring our assemblage to unrecorded amended lives. 

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