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Cover of "The Cooking Gene" by Michael Twitty, with a photo of the author sitting in front of a green building holding a bowl of food

Tracing Ancestry in The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

Throughout his life, the kitchen was the place where truth always found Michael Twitty. It was where he first came out to his mother. Where he first felt kinship toward Jewish tradition. And where he decided to delve as deeply as possible into the culinary history of his ancestors.