Writer, actor and longtime NPR contributor Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor died September 3 , 2016, at age 79.
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor contributed hundreds of commentaries to NPR between 1980 and 2013. She was famed for her culinary explorations and travels, including a 1983 visit to a place she loved: Daufuskie Island, S.C.