#michael twitty

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Author spotlight! Michael Twitty is an award-winning author and culinary historian who specializes in food of the African-American community from enslavement in the mid-18th century to post-reconstruction in the mid to late 19th century.

BUY THE BOOK: THE COOKING GENE

A culinary historian travels the routes of his ancestors in the Old South, immersing himself in a complex weaving of food history and politi

Michael Twitty's books touch on American history, and the relevance of ingredients available in a historical and modern context. As a Black, Jewish, gay man, he explores the importance of his history and presence in the world.

Pre-order his latest book Recipes from the American South, coming out on October 15th, 2025.

Relevant links: Website, Amazon, Instagram

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The Bring Your Own Book Club is now streaming, wherever you get your podcasts!

I'm really excited about it. Join me and a friend every other Thursday as we discuss what we've been reading lately. This week, we're talking about The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty and the These Hollow Vows Series by Lexi Ryan.

It's all the fun of a book club, but none of the homework!

You can listen here:

The Bring Your Own Book Club | Jill Nusbaum

A book club where you read what you want every time! </p>

Or wherever else you like to listen to podcasts. Youtube information coming soon.

And you can check out our website at: https://www.thebyobookclub.com/

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CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT KOSHERSOUL AND HOW ITS AMAZING

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Michael Twitty - LGBTQ Jewish Hero - Keshet

Michael is Jewish, Black, and gay, and this “makes my soul’s recipe unique and powerful.” The award-winning author of 2018’s The Cooking Gen

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I dare to believe all Southerners are a family. We are not merely Native, European, and African. We are Middle Eastern and South Asian and East Asian and Latin American, now. We are a dysfunctional family, but we are still a family. We are unwitting inheritors of a story with many sins that bears the fruit of the possibility of ten times the redemption. One way is through reconnection with the culinary culture of the enslaved, our common ancestors, and restoring their names on the roots of the Southern tree and the table those roots support.

Michael Twitty in Afroculinaria. American Food and Race: Ten Things I Learned from Writing and Living The Cooking Gene

THE COOKING GENE: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

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How Black Culinary Historians Are Rewriting the History of American Food

African American food culture is one of many aspects of African American identity that represents an unbroken line from Africa to present-day America.

Pretty sure I’ve shared this before, but this 2021 update of a 2020 story is still excellent reading. Think of it as a refresher course before Thanksgiving

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Jewish food and black food crisscross each other throughout history.  They are both cuisines where homeland and exile inter-play.  Ideas and emotions are ingredients - satire, irony, longing, resistance - and you have to eat the food to extract that meaning.  The foods of both diasporas depends on memory.  One memory is the sweep of the people's journey, and the other is the little bits and pieces of individual lives shaped by ancient paths and patterns.  The food is an archive, a keeper of secrets.

The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty; pg. 70

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Speaking of homosexual, the kitchen is also the place I once cut myself badly with a knife trying to discover what my G.I. Joe and He-Man looked like "under there"... What a fucking disappointment and waste of blood.

Michael W. Twitty, The Cooking Gene