“You have to know a lot of songs to cook the way our ancestors cooked. The songs are like clocks with spells.… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“Food, racism, power, and justice are linked. What I’m trying to do is dismantle culinary nutritional imperialism and gastronomic white supremacy with… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“The Old South is a place where people use food to tell themselves who they are, to tell others who they are,… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“Before I officially began the journey to dig deeper into my food and family roots, I was racking up an internal encyclopedia… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“The travels to discovery my heritage revealed to me that the South might not be a place so much as it is… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“My entire cooking life has been about memory. It's my moth indispensable ingredient, so wherever I find it, I hoard it. I… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“Today's American food culture is a contested landscape in search of values, new direction, and its own indigenous sense of rightness and… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“Jewish food and black food crisscross each other throughout history. They are both cuisines where homeland and exile interplay. Ideas and emotions… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“There is no chef without a homeland. To be a chef today is to center yourself in the traditions of your roots… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“We have come to this strange cultural moment where food is both tool and weapon. I am grateful for it. My enter… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“It is also clear that structural racism is beating down the black chef. It started with segregation; black chefs in the South were either… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“So much was lost—names, faces, ages, ethnic identities—that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must do: take a completely… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“The Old South is a place where people use food to tell themselves who they are, to tell others who they are, and to… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“Before I officially began the journey to dig deeper into my food and family roots, I was racking up an internal encyclopedia about other… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“My entire cooking life has been about memory. It's my moth indispensable ingredient, so wherever I find it, I hoard it. I tell stories… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“Jewish food and black food crisscross each other throughout history. They are both cuisines where homeland and exile interplay. Ideas and emotions are ingredients… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“You have to know a lot of songs to cook the way our ancestors cooked. The songs are like clocks with spells. Some enslaved… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“So much was lost - names, faces, ages, ethnic identities - that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“There is no chef without a homeland. To be a chef today is to center yourself in the traditions of your roots and use… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“Nothing ever really escapes memory, and even the things we forget often are condemned to it.” — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“Food, racism, power, and justice are linked. What I’m trying to do is dismantle culinary nutritional imperialism and gastronomic white supremacy with one cup… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“A heritage that is only self-congratulating and masturbatory is not a heritage at all but rather insipid nostalgia. We cannot afford that; everything must… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
“Closing down an event with Confederate reenactors is never really easy for a black guy. Let’s face it, the Confederates lost the War Between… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share
