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 tradition… Saturday, April 27, 2019 Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20540 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The DC Author Festival, […]
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 retail copies fund culinary trips to West Africa for people who can’t afford to go on their own dime. So far sales […]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2019/03/07/cornmeal-is-baked-into-the-history-of-the-americas-and-its-time-to-dust-off-those-roots/ Quoted. 🙂 Enjoy! Below: Diners at my dinner for RadicalXChange in New Orleans enjoying my version of kush (recipe in article) among other delicious things!
Ok…Shanah Tovah y’all! I was going to do a chicken and apples recipe but naw….Joan Nathan got that down. I wanted to make a brisket for the holiday but I wanted it to be unique. Yes to green salad, roasted fall veggies, peach kugel (secret ingredient frosted flakes), matzoh ball soup. I’m exhausted so I […]
A DNA culinary connection to my African Roots by Michael W. Twitty: author of The Cooking Gene James Beard Award Winner for Best Food Writing and Book of the Year, 2018. Because of AncestryDNA I was able to trace my ancestry back through West Africa to the people’s of Ghana. An old family story linked […]
I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited I can’t stand it!!!! I just pre-ordered the cookbook on Amazonsmile.com and it will be out in November!!!! HALLELUJAH!!!!