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

$28.00

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.

 

Hardback by Michael W. Twitty

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SKU: 012669 Categories: Books, Gift Shop Tags: Book, Books, Cooking

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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.

 

Hardback by Michael W. Twitty

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