A review by schroedenator
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

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5.0

I don't know what I expected from this book, but it has surpassed anything I could've imagined. Twitty doesn't just give us the basics of southern food. He shares his own history and the journey he went on to learn how his ancestors would've lived and cooked, while also giving us the history of the slave trade and how the Africans stolen from their homes shaped the south and many of its traditions. There is something to learn for anyone who picks up this book.