Michael W. Twitty

Michael W. Twitty is a culinary historian, cook, and living interpreter whose work The Cooking Gene braids genealogy, archival research, and plantation-era cookery into the most personally urgent account of Black Southern food we have.

He has also, through his Cooking Gene project and Afroculinaria, demonstrated that food scholarship and public cookery are the same craft when practiced with enough seriousness.