“You have to know a lot of songs to cook the way our ancestors cooked. The songs are like clocks with spells. Some enslaved cooks timed the cooking by the stanzas of the hymns and spirituals, or little folk songs… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Nothing ever really escapes memory, and even the things we forget often are condemned to it.” — 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 one cup… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
