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From Parts Unknown to The Cooking Gene: An Engraved Annoucement
So if you were watching Anthony Bourdain’s acclaimed CNN program Parts Unknown on Sunday, May 18th, you caught this exchange between Bourdain and the head of the Southern Foodways Alliance, John T....
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Trace Your Roots Back to Africa: One Day Course
Join cultural historian Michael W. Twitty for a day’s course at the Alexandria Black History Museum, Saturday, January 31, 2015 to learn how to discover your family roots back to Africa using all the...
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Researching African-American Ancestors
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2015/feb/18/researching-alexandrias-african-american-ancestors/ Great write up on my genealogy class at Alexandria Black History Museum! Includes highlights...
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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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#WorldBookDay Pre-Order The Cooking Gene today
On November 8, 2016, HarperCollins will release my first book: The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South. RACE. We are fascinated by it and...
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Tracing Family Roots Through Food With Michael Twitty – The Kojo Nnamdi Show
https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2016-03-09/tracing-family-roots-through-food-with-michael-twitty I had a great time today with the one and only Kojo Nnamdi of DC’s NPR affiliate, WAMU 88.5. We...
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Meet a Afri-Creole Culinary Maven rescuing the food traditions of her...
I met Cheftavist Shawanda Marie at a recent presentation at Virginia Tech. Chef is a living archive of Afri-Creole culture, embodying the values of The Cooking Gene. During this Lenten time, I wanted...
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Please Support my Culinary Pilgrimage To Senegal
https://www.gofundme.com/nb652b-trip-to-africa Today is my 40th birthday and I’m excited to be alive. I want to reverse the Middle Passage. I want to take my life’s work and go on a culinary Pilgrimage...
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Kirkus review of The Cooking Gene is in!
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-w-twitty/the-cooking-gene/ Just wanted to put everybody on notice that the good reviews keep coming in. Today was a good day in the life of The...
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An AncestryDNA Inspired Dinner-Ghanaian Domedu
A DNA culinary connection to my African Roots by Michael W. Twitty: author of The Cooking Gene James Beard Award Winner for Best Food Writing and Book of the Year, 2018. Because of AncestryDNA I was...
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