Southern Guide to Tashlich
Tashlich is an ancient symbolic ritual among Jews where we scatter crumbs from our pockets into a body of water withContinue Reading
Exploring Culinary Traditions of Africa, African America and the African Diaspora
Tashlich is an ancient symbolic ritual among Jews where we scatter crumbs from our pockets into a body of water withContinue Reading
This has been an amazing day. Thank you. Summer has it on the shelf next to the copy of RootsContinue Reading
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/food-historian-reckons-black-roots-southern-food-180964285/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia If you want to check out Smithsonian magazine’s coverage. Or…if you missed this morning’s piece on the NPR show “OnContinue Reading
Chef Carla Hall (Top Chef, The Chew) and I were the first guests on African Ancestry Radio on Sirius XM!Continue Reading
I am pleased to announce that http://www.Afroculinaria.com has been nominated for a Saveur Blog Award! Afroculinaria is under the FoodContinue Reading
“What’s the difference between Southern food and soul food?” is perhaps the number one question we African American food writersContinue Reading
https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/ole-missus-vs-mammy-who-owns-southern-food I want to thank my editor at VICE Media’s food focused Munchies site, Matt Zuras and editor-in-chief Helen HollymanContinue Reading
https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/michael-twitty-addresses-racial-inequality-in-the-southern-kitchen?utm_source=munchiestwitterus Helen Hollyman, Editor of Vice’s very popular Munchies site sat down with me to have a conversation about SouthernContinue Reading
https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2016-03-09/tracing-family-roots-through-food-with-michael-twitty I had a great time today with the one and only Kojo Nnamdi of DC’s NPR affiliate, WAMU 88.5. Continue Reading
On November 8, 2016, HarperCollins will release my first book: The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American CulinaryContinue Reading
http://news.kgnu.org/2016/02/outsourcses-michael-twitty-food-history-and-sexual-identity-in-the-south/ I have rarely had the opportunity to do in person radio interviews that significantly involve or incorporate my identityContinue Reading
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Be sure to read more about what I do and what this food means in The Cooking Gene. Order aContinue Reading
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/04/barbecue-american-tradition-enslaved-africans-native-americans?CMP=share_btn_tw Enjoy this piece I wrote, freshly published on The Guardian giving a short history of how barbecue is connectedContinue Reading
It’s National Soul Food Month. Yes there is such a thing! I thought I might take you on a tourContinue Reading