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

Publisher	New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
	Š2017

Copies

LOCATION	CALL NO.	STATUS
Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks	641.59296 .T929c	AVAILABLE
Maine State Lib. Stacks	641.59296 T974c 2017	AVAILABLE

Edition	First edition
Phys Descr	xvii, 443 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-437)
Contents	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
Summary	"A memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces the paths of the author's ancestors (black and white) through the crucible of slavery to show its effects on our food today"-- Provided by publisher
Subject	African American cooking -- History
	Cooking, American -- Southern style -- History
	African Americans -- Food -- Southern States -- History
	African Americans -- Genealogy
	Genetic genealogy
Other Form	Online version: Twitty, Michael, 1977- Cooking gene. First edition. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 2017 9780062379283 (DLC) 2017004857
OCLC #	971130586
ISBN #	9780062379290
	0062379291
	9780062379276
	0062379275