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11.28 #RMU: Chef Michael Twitty talks "The Cooking Gene" and Black culinary history in the South

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4.7632 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Author Chef Michael Twitty talks about his book, …

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First of all, it's very interesting.

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This book is called The Cooking Gene,

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a journey through African-American culinary history in the Old South.

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Of course, we just had, I just had about 20 family members in Virginia for Christmas holidays.

1:45.0

And so I needed them black people to leave because it was way too much food being cooked.

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Yes.

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Because my dad was the lead chef for my grandmother's catering business and then my brother's an executive chef and so they

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dude they were planning meals and i mean literally uh you talk about it was i was plus nine pounds

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over the christmas i mean it was just too much i was like y'all got leave y'all got leave and

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no no no no no texas from texas oh that's even from texas of course, my maternal grandparents are from Louisiana. Oh, man. Okay. So we had like a four. How many gumbos were there? There were two. So we had a 40 quart pot that we did Christmas Eve. And then we did a 16 quart pot on New Year's Eve. It can't deal for. So it was just crazy.

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So let's talk about this here.

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