A review by therealkathryn
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South: A James Beard Award Winner by Michael W. Twitty, Michael W. Twitty

5.0

Thought-provoking and intense. Twitty makes a compelling case that Southern food's heritage comes from the cooking styles and techniques of the enslaved people brought from Africa. I found the writing at times dense, there were many lists of different foods of an area, and I couldn't always follow along with the genealogy, but I didn't feel those detracted from the main message of the work.