The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

by Michael W. Twitty

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062379291
• ISBN13: 9780062379290
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Amistad Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"