The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

By Michael W. Twitty

A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on 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 slavery to freedom.

Published by Amistad Press

1.0" x 8.0" x 5.31" / 0.8 lbs

480 page