Over the years she opened three eponymous restaurants, penned three cookbooks, hosted the nationally syndicated show, B. Smith With Style, and was the first African American woman to grace the ...

Over the years, she opened three eponymous restaurants, wrote three cookbooks and hosted the nationally syndicated show, B. Smith With Style. She also made history as the first African-American ...

AWARDS: Smith won an Outstanding Lead Actress Emmy ... and considered leaving the show on several occasions. When her contract was set to expire at the end of 2005, Nora was put into a coma ...