The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South / Michael W. Twitty.
"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...
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
2018.
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Edition: | First Amistad paperback edition. |
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Physical Description: | xvii, 453 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
Format: | Book |
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.