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Discussing Deep South Foodways

  • Writer: Kerry Walsh
    Kerry Walsh
  • Apr 2, 2019
  • 1 min read

Michael Twitty's dense and meticulous recounting of his search for his African roots and that journey's meandering pathway through Southern food was a captivating read. Both because the book puts humanity and brutality into its descriptions of everyday life as a slave and because of the struggles Twitty experienced in trying to trace his roots through often non-European bloodlines, our readers found this book both fascinating and challenging.


Our group struggled to get through the early chapters of Twitty's book that featured short vignettes and stories grouped together into chapters. We were much more captivated by the longer-form storytelling of the later chapters in which Twitty takes one or a small group of subjects and discusses is throughout the chapter. Most of us were also a bit unprepared for Twitty's style of melding personal narrative/memoir with food history writing.


You can find more about Michael Twitty on his blog:

https://afroculinaria.com/


Michael Twitty's open letter to the Queen of Southern Cuisine, Paula Deen:

https://afroculinaria.com/2013/06/25/an-open-letter-to-paula-deen/


Find heritage grains and rice, including the coveted Carolina Gold Rice, being grown by plant geneticists in South Carolina:

http://ansonmills.com/


Order items for your Southern food pantry from the Lee Brothers, featured in Mr. Twitty's book:

http://www.boiledpeanuts.com/index2.html

 
 
 

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