The Cooking Gene

A James Beard Award–winning memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture tracing one man’s ancestry through food, from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom. “Slavery made the world of our ancestors incredibly remote to us. Thankfully the work of Michael W. Twitty helps restore our awareness of their struggle and successes bite by bite, giving us a true taste of the past.” —Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., host of PBS’s Finding Your Roots and Many Rivers to Cross Southern food is integral