Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I am Karen Hunter and while yes, I am awesome, this podcast is about

people and the things that they have to offer to you. I believe in speaking things into existence.

So it is with that, I offer you these amazing

people, these awesome topics. Sit back and enjoy. Let me welcome to the show. I have many,

many questions for this gentleman. He is the author of Coture Soul, the faith and food journey

of an African-American Jew. Say what now? Let me welcome Mr. Michael W. Twitty.

Hi, how are you?

Hi.

I'm awesome.

I'm honored to see you.

Okay.

Thank you.

Now, I actually don't think it's a huge leap as a person that has a Mazuzza on her door, on all of her doors leading into my home, from being black to

being Jewish because Jesus was black. And the first converted Christian was an African. So I feel

like it's redundant to call yourself a black Jew. But tell me how your journey to Judaism came about

and then we'll get into the food. So this is very specifically, I say use the words African American.

When the New York Times piece came out about African American celebrations on Passover,

what we served, those conversations. People were writing and talking

about, what about the Ethiopians? I'm like, no, no, no, what about people right here in this

country? What about the story of Jews of color in the Americas for the past 500 years? It's part of the

American, African diaspora and Jewish diaspora stories that rarely gets told.

So while I could have written some long, drawn out history, I decided not to because I wanted to give that kind of information the right time and space it needed to really get through to people.

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