Michael W. Twitty is an award-winning culinary historian and food writer. His 2017 book, “The Cooking Gene,” traced his ancestry through food from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom and won the 2018 James Beard Award for writing.
In this lecture, Michael W. Twitty considered 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. “Kosher Soul,” his follow up to “The Cooking Gene,” was published in 2022 through HarperCollins.
This lecture was generously provided for by the TAWANI Foundation, the sponsor of the Audrey G. Ratner Excellence Endowed Fund for American Jewry and Jewish Culture and the Audrey G. Ratner Speaker Series.
