Michael W. Twitty – MasterClass – Teaches Tracing Your Roots Through Food

Michael W. Twitty – MasterClass – Teaches Tracing Your Roots Through Food

James Beard Award–winning author of The Cooking Gene teaches how to trace your culinary roots through the food your ancestors ate.

Through years of unearthing his African American heritage, bestselling author of The Cooking Gene Michael W. Twitty discovered undeniable ties between his ancestors’ past and his own palate. Now he’s teaching how you can get a taste of your family history through food. Explore the migrations that informed the ingredients in your kitchen—then re-create the dishes that helped shape who you are.

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1. Meet Your Instructor

2. Ancestral Foodways: Keeping Recipes Alive

3. Tracing Ancestral Foodsteps

4. Case Study: The Cooking Gene

5. Foodways of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

6. Food Culture of the Antebellum South

7. The Birth of Soul Food

8. Taking Inspiration From Master Chefs

9. Africa’s Culinary Contributions

10. The Mosaic of Genealogy

11. Deciphering Your DNA Story

12. Food Storytelling

13. Food Blogging with Purpose

14. Facing Your Pain

15. Culinary Justice

16. Okra, Corn & Tomato Stew

17. Accara: Black-Eyed Pea Fritters

18. Our Narratives Connect Us