2018
James
Beard
Foundation
Book
of
the
Year
|
2018
James
Beard
Foundation
Book
Award Winner
inWriting
|
Nominee
for
the
2018
Hurston/Wright
Legacy
Award
in
Nonfiction
|
#75
on
The
Root100
2018
A
renowned
culinary
historian
offers
a
fresh
perspective
on
our
most
divisive
cultural
issue,
race,
in
this
illuminating
memoir
of
Southern
cuisine
and
food
culture
that
traces
his
ancestry—both
black
and
white—through
food,
from
Africa
to
America
and
slavery
to
freedom.
Southern
food
is
integral
to
the
American
culinary
tradition,
yet
the
question
of
who
"owns"
it
is
one
of
the
most
provocative
touch
points
in
our
ongoing
struggles
over
race.
In
this
unique
memoir,
culinary
historian
Michael
W.
Twitty
takes
readers
to
the
white-hot
center
of
this
fight,
tracing
the
roots
of
his
own
family
and
the
charged
politics
surrounding
the
origins
of
soul
food,
barbecue,
and
all
Southern
cuisine.
From
the
tobacco
and
rice
farms
of
colonial
times
to
plantation
kitchens
and
backbreaking
cotton
fields,
Twitty
tells
his
family
story
through
the
foods
that
enabled
his
ancestors’
survival
across
three
centuries.
He
sifts
through
stories,
recipes,
genetic
tests,
and
historical
documents,
and
travels
from
Civil
War
battlefields
in
Virginia
to
synagogues
in
Alabama
to
Black-owned
organic
farms
in
Georgia.
As
he
takes
us
through
his
ancestral
culinary
history,
Twitty
suggests
that
healing
may
come
from
embracing
the
discomfort
of
the
Southern
past.
Along
the
way,
he
reveals
a
truth
that
is
more
than
skin
deep—the
power
that
food
has
to
bring
the
kin
of
the
enslaved
and
their
former
slaveholders
to
the
table,
where
they
can
discover
the
real
America
together.
Illustrations
by
Stephen
Crotts
Recenzii
n/a
ably
joins
past
and
present,
puzzling
out
culinary
mysteries
along
the
way…
An
exemplary,
inviting
exploration
and
an
inspiration
for
cooks
and
genealogists
n/a
has
accomplished
something
remarkable
with
The
Cooking
Gene...
It’s
a
book
to
save,
reread,
and
share
until
everyone
you
know
has
a
working
understanding
of
the
human
stories
and
pain
behind
some
of
America’s
most
foundational
and
historically
significant
n/a
there
ever
be
a
competition
to
determine
the
most
interesting
man
in
the
world,
Michael
W.
Twitty
would
have
to
be
considered
a
serious
n/a
made
the
world
of
our
ancestors
incredibly
remote
to
us.
Thankfully,
the
work
of
Michael
W.
Twitty
helps
restore
our
awareness
of
their
struggles
and
successes
bite
by
bite,
giving
us
a
true
taste
of
the
n/a
in
Michael
W.
Twitty’s
no-nonsense
style
and
interlaced
with
moments
of
levity,
The
Cooking
Gene
is
gritty,
compelling,
and
enlightening
–
a
mix
of
personal
narrative
and
the
history
of
race,
politics,
economics
and
enslavement
that
will
broaden
notions
of
African-American
culinary
n/a
A
valuable
addition
to
culinary
and
Old
South
historiography
with
lip-smacking
period
recipes.”
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