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020 _a9780062379290
_q(hardcover ;
_qalkaline paper)
020 _a0062379291
_q(hardcover ;
_qalkaline paper)
020 _a9780062379276
_q(paperback ;
_qalkaline paper)
020 _a0062379275
_q(paperback ;
_qalkaline paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)971130586
042 _apcc
043 _an-usu--
092 _a641.5929
_bT974
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aTwitty, Michael,
_d1977-
_eauthor.
_9342794
245 1 4 _aThe cooking gene :
_ba journey through African American culinary history in the Old South /
_cMichael W. Twitty.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bAmistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _axvii, 443 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_bcolor illustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 423-437).
505 0 _aPreface: 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.
520 _a"A memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces the paths of the author's ancestors (black and white) through the crucible of slavery to show its effects on our food today"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"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 is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touchpoints in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. Twitty travels from the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields to tell of the struggles his family faced and how food enabled his ancestors' survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and visits Civil War battlefields in Virginia, synagogues in Alabama, and black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the South's past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep--the power of food to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together."--Jacket.
650 0 _aAfrican American cooking
_xHistory.
_9232357
650 0 _aCooking, American
_xSouthern style
_xHistory.
_9342795
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xFood
_zSouthern States
_xHistory.
_9342796
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_vGenealogy.
_9342797
650 0 _aGenetic genealogy.
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