The Cooking Gene
by Michael W. Twitty
Amistad. 2017. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 444pp. Gray boards over gray spine. Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket.
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.