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Culinary historian Michael Twitty celebrates cultural roots of Southern fare...
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/09/14/3191419/culinary-historian-michael-twitty.html Great article by Andrea Weigl! Pulls it altogether!
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Stagville Harvest Dinner Featuring Michael Twitty | La Buena Vida
http://thedish22.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/stagville-harvest-dinner-featuring-michael-twitty/ Torriano Fredericks brings it with mote coverage from the Stagville event. New blog posts and recipes coming...
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I Stand (Happily) Corrected
The other day ago I got a fantastic email from a man named Curtis Berry. He had some things to say about my piece about picking cotton, and I am glad to share them with you. I am pleased whenever...
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Interview with Andi Cumbo-Floyd, author of “The Slaves Have Names”
The people who lived enslaved in Central Virginia at plantations like the Bremo properties were highly industrious and skilled laborers who provided much of their own food. Outside the provided common...
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Virginia Conversations: Afro-Cuisine | Virginia Public Radio
http://virginiapublicradio.org/2014/02/07/virginia-conversations-afro-cuisine/ Today’s Virginia Conversations, for Black History Month a discussion on African Virginian foodways. ENJOY!
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12 Years A Slave: Why I’m Glad it Won Best Picture
12 Years A Slave: Why I’m Glad it Won Best Picture “Joyce is right about history being a nightmare –but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and...
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Boston College Visit March 18, 2014
I am going to Boston next weekend in preparation for a presentation at Boston College! If you are in Boston on Tuesday, March 18th, come to the Walsh Hall Function Room for Dining From a Haunted Plate:...
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Hey Cliven Bundy, Freedom Beats Picking Cotton
Sooo…I heard about this rancher who was angry about not being able to graze on “his land,” (Let’s ask the Shoshone, Ute and Paiute and other First Nations about that claim…) and I was really disturbed...
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Tasting the past: Michael Twitty teaches history, equality and grace through...
http://mountainx.com/uncategorized/tasting-the-past-michael-twitty-teaches-history-equality-and-grace-through-food/ A great write up on the dinner with Mike Moore and Elliott Moss from my friend...
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Food On a Maryland Plantation: Frederick Douglass Speaks
Wye House Plantation, the Great House Farm spoken of by Frederick Douglass, Talbot County, Maryland, Eastern Shore From The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1889 On his Birth and his...
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Journeys in the Upper South: A Photo Essay
As I officially begin to work on The Cooking Gene, I have begun to travel the South again in search of bits and pieces from the world of my Ancestors. I am ever amazed and grateful for the journey and...
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Michael Twitty on culinary justice – video | Membership | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/membership/video/2014/oct/27/michael-twitty-on-culinary-justice-video Special thanks to John Mulholland and the Observer for inviting me to an incredible event!
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Wild Game Butchering The Way Our Ancestors Did in Plantation Days
I asked my colleague Chef Harold Caldwell to write about the process of butchering wild game in the colonial and antebellum periods. This is a real treat full of detail about how our Ancestors...
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Talking ‘Southern Discomfort': Foodcast with Michael Twitty | MUNCHIES
http://munchies.vice.com/videos/talking-southern-discomfort-foodcast-with-michael-twitty The podcast prequel to the article.. enjoy and feel free to share–it’s free and it helps spread the message!...
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Oklahoma, Damn!!????
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. James...
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Bitter Herbs and Collard Greens: An African-American Seder Plate For Passover...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/04/03/397255528/bitter-herbs-and-collard-greens-an-african-american-seder-plate-for-passover Enjoy this short piece I did for NPR’S Code Switch blog. Happy...
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I Can’t Hide Mine, Please Don’t Hide Yours: An Open Letter to Ben Affleck
Dear Ben, Its unfortunate because of a massive internet hack we are in this particular place discussing your ancestral past. It’s horrible that your private matters were exposed because of something...
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A People’s History of Southern Barbecue
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/04/barbecue-american-tradition-enslaved-africans-native-americans?CMP=share_btn_tw Enjoy this piece I wrote, freshly published on The Guardian giving a...
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How to Make Kush, the Original Cornbread Stuffing | MUNCHIES
https://munchies.vice.com/recipes/cornbread-kush Follow this link for a recipe for kush, an irreplaceable African American contribution to Thanksgiving.
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Taking the Cake
So there is a lot of press about two children’s books published as of late. One, A Fine Dessert, was published and honored, another, A Birthday Cake for George Washington just got pulled. Both showed...
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