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The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South / Michael W. Twitty.

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  • ISBN: 9780062379290
  • ISBN: 0062379291
  • ISBN: 9780062379276
  • ISBN: 0062379275
  • Physical Description: xvii, 443 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-437).
Formatted Contents Note:
Preface: The Old South -- No more whistling walk for me -- Hating my soul -- Mise en place -- Mishpocheh -- Missing pieces -- No nigger blood -- "White man in the woodpile" -- 0.01 percent -- Sweet tooth -- Mothers of slaves -- Alma mater -- Chesapeake gold -- The Queen -- Adam in the garden -- Shake dem 'simmons down -- All creatures of our G-d and king -- The Devil's half acre -- "The King's cuisine" -- Crossroads -- The old country -- Sankofa.
Subject:
African American cooking > History.
Cooking, American > Southern style > History.
African Americans > Food > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Genealogy.
Genetic genealogy.
Genre:
Family histories.
Cooking gene.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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