- Genealogy, Food, American Cooking, Genetic genealogy
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.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and character-led.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Twitty
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 461
- Publisher
- Amistad, HarperCollins Publishers, Tantor Audio
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062876577
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