Announcing a New Project Take One: The Cooking Gene
It is the eve of the last Shabbat of 2011. I can’t get a hold of anybody. Everybody is getting ready for New Year’s Eve and getting out the last of the holiday season fervor from their bones. I need...
View ArticleThe Cooking Gene: The Southern Discomfort Tour: Genealogy
There are four aspects to The Cooking Gene–Genealogy, Food History, Identity and Connection. The campaign to fund the Southern Discomfort Tour begins January 16, 2012 on Indiegogo.com. The separate...
View ArticleThe Cooking Gene: Food and Food History
There are four aspects to The Cooking Gene–Genealogy, Food History, Identity and Connection/Legacy. The campaign to fund the Southern Discomfort Tour begins February 1, 2012 on Indiegogo.com. The...
View ArticleSex sells……
Okay if you are reading this post because the term “Sex” is in the title, then I’ve already got you.. LOL No doubt I will get more “interesting” hits from people looking for something other than food...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Grammy! We Miss You! January 12, 1925-October 21, 1990
Happy Birthday baby! My Grandmother as a Little Girl, (Far Left), Alabama ca. 1928 Dear Grammy (Hazel Clintonia Todd Townsend), You would have been 87 today. Thank you for having my Mom and through her...
View ArticleA Response to Your Responses: Part One
Posing with two sisters who survived the Holocaust and later fought for Civil Rights in Alabama; Temple Beth El, Birmingham 2012 You see these two ladies in Birmingham, Alabama? I would have LOVED for...
View Article#Ferguson : My Thoughts on an American Flashpoint
“…It was the corroboration of their worth and their power that they wanted, and not the corpse, still less the staining blood.” James Baldwin, “To Be Baptized,” from No Name in the Street, 1972 I have...
View ArticleMichael Twitty, Afroculinaria | 50 People Who Are Changing the South in 2015...
http://www.southernliving.com/m/travel/people-changing-south-2015/michael-twitty-africulinaria I am pleased to announce that Southern Living, a magazine long revered in my family, named me and this...
View ArticleDear Grandpa Massa: An Open Letter to my White Ancestor for Confederate...
To: Captain Richard Henry Bellamy— From: Your Descendant, Mr. Michael W. Twitty, a published author Date: 4/23/2018, Confederate Memorial Day Subject: Times Have Changed You are my third great...
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