Michael W. Twitty Biography

Michael W. Twitty began his Cooking Gene project which would form the basis for his 2017 book The Cooking Gene. For the Cooking Gene project and in his book The Cooking Gene Twitty traces his ancestry through from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom. Twitty is also the first ever Revolutionary in Residence at Colonial Williamsburg and the founder of the Southern Discomfort Tour a journey through the American South designed to raise awareness about the impact racism had on Southern cuisine. He has received the inaugural Culinary Pioneer Award from Tastetalks and won both readers choice and editors choice for his letter to chef Sean Brock on Afroculinaria from Saveur. named Twitty one of Fifty People Changing the South and the Root.com added him to their 100 most influential African Americans under 45.

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