The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South: A James Beard Award Winner Binding:Paperback and power that have made

and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation

long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life--and beyond

from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond

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whose legacy is more complicated than it appears

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South: A James Beard Award Winner Binding:Paperback and power that have made2018 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 ancestryboth black and whitethrough food, from Africa to America and slavery to