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Watch “Food of the Enslaved: Okra Soup” on YouTube
I loved partnering with Jason Townsend&Sons, my favorite historic clothier and provider of historic goods to produce a few videos for their wildly popular You Tube series on cooking in the 18th...
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IWatch “Food of the Enslaved: Barbecue” on YouTube
I loved partnering with Jason Townsend&Sons, my favorite historic clothier and provider of historic goods to produce a few videos for their wildly popular You Tube series on cooking in the 18th...
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Watch “Food of the Enslaved: Akara” on YouTube
I loved partnering with Jason Townsend&Sons, my favorite historic clothier and provider of historic goods to produce a few videos for their wildly popular You Tube series on cooking in the 18th...
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Why BBQ is America’s Most Political Food
Enjoy this story I was interviewed for along with my friends and colleagues Chuck Reese and Kathleen Purvis. Special thanks to Georgia Public Radio.
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National Soul Food Month Message: Why You Should Buy The Cooking Gene.
The Cooking Gene is not a cookbook but it does have treasured family recipes and reconstructed recipes from history. The Cooking Gene is not a diatribe on race and food nor is it about how you have to...
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Good Press on Launch Day! THE COOKING GENE, Part 1 August 1, 2017
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...
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The Work, a Photo Essay
Those hot rolls come from a place of love. And I can enjoy them with friends in ways the past never allowed. Soft shelled crabs are a food I don’t indulge in but it’s a challenge to make new local...
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About that hot sauce recipe…
I know what y’all want…. So this is not easy. I made a quick hot sauce on the fly from long red cayennes, habaneros, and fish peppers for the Raleigh Tavern Society at Colonial Williamsburg. It was a...
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Welcome to #TheCookingGene Journey: A Photo Essay with a Recipe
I started writing this book on paper plates and paper bags. I walked around with an entire book in my head from my years. Paula Deen happened, my response went viral, agents started calling and...
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Whose Cuisine Is It Anyway? White or Black or Native? The Cooking Gene responds…
https://www.cooknscribble.com/posts/2017/10/13/the-cooking-gene-whose-cuisine-is-it-anyway One of my favorite reviews because it comes from the heart. It is written by a white Southern writer, Patricia...
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Ghana (You) Must Go! Part 1
On March 10, 2018, five African American culinarians took a journey with Ada Anagho Brown of Roots to Glory on a culinary tour of Ghana. For the first time, a DNA and heritage driven tour specifically...
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Dear Grandpa Massa: An Open Letter to my White Ancestor for Confederate...
To: Captain Richard Henry Bellamy— From: Your Descendant, Mr. Michael W. Twitty, a published author Date: 4/23/2018, Confederate Memorial Day Subject: Times Have Changed You are my third great...
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Enjoy ‘An Afternoon of Cultural Cuisine’ on April 28 With Culinary Historian...
https://www.historyisfun.org/news/enjoy-an-afternoon-of-cultural-cuisine-april-28-with-culinary-historian-and-author-michael-twitty-at-the-american-revolution-museum-at-yorktown/ Come see me in...
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How An Antebellum Chef Is Inspiring Brownsville Culinary Students To Reclaim...
http://gothamist.com/2018/05/15/michael_twitty_brownsville.php Really cool article about my recent visit to Brownsville Community Culinary Center. Photographs 1-5 below by Brroklyn based photographer...
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New Stuff is Happening
Hey Y’all! The paperback is OUT! With the brand new James Beard Award seal attached! We are so pleased to see the outpouring of love and interest in this project. If you’d like to get a copy here are a...
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African American Seder Plate
Lots to do, more to come, enjoy! Thanks to Ben Jankewicz and Queen Quet! Please keep buying FIRSTHAND copies of THE COOKING GENE from HarperCollins, Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Sales of firsthand...
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Event: DC AUTHOR FEST
https://www.dclibrary.org/DCAuthorFest If you’re in THE DMV, come see me April 27th at the Library of Congress! Let’s talk about genealogy, culinary history, African American foodways and Southern...
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Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Sit Down.
Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Hi! My name is Michael W. Twitty and I’m one of those interpreters who has watched you squirm or run away. I’m not a reenactor, because G-d forbid I reenact...
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American Food and Race: Ten Things I Learned from Writing and Living The...
At the end of the prologue to my book The Cooking Gene (HarperCollins Amistad imprint, 2017/2018) I reflected on whether or not the Southern table could give us some insight into America’s second...
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