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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Cajun to name just a fewAuthor: Michael W. Twitty 2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting Nominee for the 2018 Hurston Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry both black and white through food, from Africa to