Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew
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Overview
“A fascinating, cross-cultural smorgasbord grounded in the deep emotional role food plays in two influential American communities.”—Booklist
The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food.
In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation of migrations and a dialogue of diasporas offering a rich background for inventive recipes and the people who create them.
The question that most intrigues him is not just who makes the food, but how the food makes the people. Jews of Color are not outliers, Twitty contends, but significant and meaningful cultural creators in both Black and Jewish civilizations. Koshersoul also explores how food has shaped the journeys of numerous cooks, including Twitty’s own passage to and within Judaism.
As intimate, thought-provoking, and profound as The Cooking Gene, this remarkable book teases the senses as it offers sustenance for the soul.
Koshersoul includes 48-50 recipes.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780062891716 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 08/08/2023 |
Pages: | 400 |
Sales rank: | 108,932 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Part I Berachah
1 Family History 3
2 The Numbers Game, or "Where the Kinfolk At?" 12
3 The Bus Ride, or "For the Last Time, This iss Why I'm Jewish!" 20
Mayseh: A Blessing on Strange Creatures 26
4 Yichus: Why I Love Jewish Food-The Honey on the Slate 32
5 Sit at the Welcome Table and Eat and be Satisfied: Black Food 38
Black Food as Jewish Food 38
Mayseh: The Exchange 49
Mayseh: The Bris, or "I Think I Have the Wrong House!" 54
Mayseh: "What Even are Those Things?" 57
Mayseh: "It's Chicken!" 61
Part II The Tablecloth
6 My Heart is in the East 69
Mayseh: "Shalom, Brother!" 73
Mayseh: "You have been Misinformed" 78
7 To Sir, with Ahavah 82
Mayseh: Katie-"I Feel Like Me" 86
Mayseh: Elliott's Tefillin 90
Mayseh: Sweet Potatoes 94
Mayseh; Truth, Reconciliation, and Repair 102
8 Kippa'ed While Black: Being a Black Jewish Man 106
Mayseh: "Get In!" 127
Mayseh: The World's Nicest White Lady 128
Part III Neshamah: A Soul Suite
9 Learning 133
Part IV Eruvim
10 People of the Land 143
Mayseh: Gardens-Landscapes of the Thriving Survivors 149
11 Keshet 158
Mayseh: Purple Velvet 160
Mayseh: Letter I Always Wanted to Write 166
Mayseh: Quadruple Queerness 171
Part V The Prepared Table
Mayseh: Chava's Query 183
Mayseh: My Afro-Ashkefardi Kitchen 190
12 Adon Olam to the Tune of Dixie: Southern Jewish Food 199
Mayseh: Driving Miss Daisy 216
13 The Griot from Blytheville: Dr. Marcie Cohen Ferris 220
Mayseh: The Other (White) Jews-The Koshersoul of Southern White Jews-by-Choice 227
Mayseh: A Southern Guide to Tashlich 234
Mayseh: Halal Soul Chef Shambra 236
14 The Cuisine of the Chocolate Chosen: Cooking Black and Jewish, a Kitchen Table Kibbitz 242
Epilogue: If I Were a Cookbook 258
Recipes 263
Menus and Other Koshersoul Ideas 331
More Koshersoul Ideas 347
Author's Note 351
Acknowledgments 355
Glossary 357
Bibliography 363