Zella Palmer is an American academic.

As of 2022 Palmer was endowed chair and director of the Ray Charles Program in African American Material Culture at Dillard University.^[1]

In 2016 Palmer made a documentary, The Story of New Orleans Creole Cooking: The Black Hand in the Pot.^[1]

Publications

• Recipes and remembrances of Fair Dillard : 1869-2019. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-946160-47-8. OCLC 1065543092.((cite book)): CS1 maint: date and year (link)^[1]