5/19/2023 0 Comments Rice by michael twitty![]() ![]() Twitty breaks down how rice came from Africa and Asia to the United States, making its way to tables of folks around the world, creating their own cultural fusions and adding their own flavors and spices to this grain. Harris that traces and acknowledges the contributions of Africans and African Americans to American food culture and cuisine. ![]() He’s also featured in Netflix’s popular High on the Hog, a four-part docuseries based on the book by Jessica B. Many readers will recognize Twitty’s name as the James Beard award-winning author of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. In his words, “rice bears narratives laden with struggle and survival, migration, movement, and family tradition.” ![]() He delights readers as he takes them around the globe from West Africa to Italy examining this humble ingredient with which he has a long and storied relationship. Twitty pens a love letter to rice - an accessible grain with limitless possibilities - in the form of a cookbook, RICE, the final volume in The University of North Carolina Press’ “Savor the South” series. “It’s also a deep part of my family history, being a descendant of the Gullah Geechee and of enslaved South Carolinians.” Twitty, an African American cookbook author and food historian. ![]() “Rice was a frequent visitor at the table,” says Michael W. ![]()
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