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Who is this Guy?
Tonight about 9 pm EST/8 CST, I’m going to cringe in absolute self-judgement as my mug pops over the screens of many many people as I work my way through cooking with one of my culinary heroes, Andrew...
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Recap: Interview on Hot Grease
Outside of Roberta’s and the Heritage Radio Network Studios: Photo By Nicole Taylor Just in case you haven’t heard it yet, the wonderful Nicole Taylor (@foodculturalist) had me and my good friends...
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Going to be in Alexandria, Virginia? Come join me!
The Alexandria Black History Museum Presents The Cooking Gene Project with Culinary Historian Michael Twitty Saturday, March 23, 2013 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Admission: $5.00 per session Reservations...
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Passover: A Black-Jewish Food Musing
Artist Donald Ely’s rendering of me doing my thing… I am a Jew. Once upon a time people used to scoff at that statement because all they could think about was a Hasidic diamond merchant…because that’s...
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This Weekend at Bacon’s Castle, Surry, VA
Afro-Atlantic Foodways with Culinary Historian, Michael Twitty 18th and 19th century Southern Afro- Atlantic cuisine, featuring Michael Twitty Saturday, March 30, 2013 Michael W. Twitty is a culinary...
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Slim pickings, not Slim Jims, make up Civil War diet | Athens Banner Herald...
Hey check out this piece on Civil War foodways by Andre Gallant that I’m quoted in at Online Athens: http://m.onlineathens.com/features/2013-03-20/slim-pickings-not-slim-jims-make-civil-war-diet.
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Tweet from Sam H. (@SamsGoodMeats)
Sam H. (@SamsGoodMeats) tweeted at 11:09 AM on Wed, May 15, 2013: Biggest honor of my writing life: a COVER STORY in @artofeating http://t.co/osKxsiKrxb (h/t @koshersoul @fiveseedsfarm @wkrestaurant)...
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Roanoke’s favorite combo speaks to its Southern roots – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/life/food/roanokes-favorite-combo-speaks-to-its-southern-roots-688233/
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An Open Letter to Paula Deen
An Open Letter to Paula Deen: Photo Courtesy of: Johnathan M. Lewis Dear Paula Deen, So it’s been a tough week for you… believe me you I know something about tough weeks being a beginning food writer...
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A Response to Your Responses: Part One
Posing with two sisters who survived the Holocaust and later fought for Civil Rights in Alabama; Temple Beth El, Birmingham 2012 You see these two ladies in Birmingham, Alabama? I would have LOVED for...
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The Garden List
So you have been waiting for this years garden list: Senegalese Niebe Cowpea Carolina Black Peanut Garden Huckleberry Burkina Faso Eggplant Gbogame Eggplant Brandywine Tomato Plate du Hayti Tomato...
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Whitewashing Southern cooking | Q | CBC Radio
http://www.cbc.ca/q/mobile/touch/2013/07/11/systemic-racism-and-southern-food/ This morning live in Canada and on NPR, from Q with Jian Ghomeshi. Fantastic questions and I was honored to be...
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Tonight at Tryon Palace
TONIGHT at 7 p.m. at Tryon Palace in New Bern, NC I will be doing a presentation with food and book sales free and open to the public. Taking the audience through a taste test of history from West and...
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“Exhibit Highlights the Role of Food in American Slavery”
Please enjoy this article briefly summarizing the program this weekend sponsored at Meadowcroft Village by the Heinz History Center of Pittsburgh....
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Observer-Reporter | A culinary history of American slavery
http://www.observer-reporter.com/article/20130728/NEWS01/130729345#.UfZykmIpDFp
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Morning on a Plantation Before the Civil War
Let the ancestors talk…. Ham and Bacon Hanging in the Smokehouse Charley Williams, WPA “Slave Narratives,” Louisiana “De plantations was about as big as any. I think it had about three hundred acres,...
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Deen debacle boosts awareness of effort to get ‘into the heads and bellies’...
http://m.indyweek.com/indyweek/blogs/Post?basename=deen-debacle-boosts-awareness-of-effort-to-get-into-the-heads-and-bellies-of-enslaved-persons&day=14&id=BigBite&month=08&year=2013
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African American Foodways with Michael W. Twitty 08/15 by BerniceBennett |...
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bernicebennett/2013/08/16/african-american-foodways-with-michael-w-twitty-1
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The Secret History of Okra – Okra Soup
http://thehistorykitchen.com/2013/08/27/history-okra-soup-recipe/ I am now on the team of Tori Avey’s History Kitchen blog (www.thehistorykitchen.com) and this is my first post! Tori’s true claim to...
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Thanks First We Feast! Afroculinaria included on The Greatest Food Bloggers...
http://firstwefeast.com/eat/best-food-bloggers-ever/s/michael-w-twitty/ So…my good friend Miriam Rubin (author of Tomatoes by UNC Press) linked me to this list of the 20 Greatest (American) Food...
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