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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

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2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner in Writing | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root 100 2018

A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating culinary memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry-both black and white-through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom.

Southern food is int...