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The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South /

"Culinary historian Michael W. Twitty brings a fresh perspective to 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 from slavery to freedom. Southern...

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Main Author: Twitty, Michael, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects and Genres:
African American cooking > History.
Cooking, American > Southern style > History.
African Americans > Food > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Genealogy.
Genetic genealogy.
Cuisine noire américaine > Histoire.
Cuisine américaine du Sud > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Alimentation > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Généalogies.
Généalogie génétique.
COOKING > History.
COOKING > Regional & Ethnic > American > Southern States.
African American cooking.
African Americans.
Cooking, American > Southern style.
Southern States.
Family histories.
Genealogy.
History.
Histoires familiales.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The Old South
  • No more whistling walk for me
  • Hating my soul
  • Mise en place
  • Mishpocheh
  • Missing pieces
  • No nigger blood
  • "White man in the woodpile"
  • 0.01 percent
  • Sweet tooth
  • Mothers of slaves
  • Alma mater
  • Chesapeake gold
  • The Queen
  • Adam in the garden
  • Shake dem 'simmons down
  • All creatures of our G-d and king
  • The Devil's half acre
  • "The King's cuisine"
  • Crossroads
  • The old country
  • Sankofa.

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