The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South
by Twitty, Michael, 1977- (Author)
Summary
"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 food... Full description
- 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.