Michael Twitty smiling.

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Culinary Arts

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Activist, Author, Chef, Historian

Michael Twitty

2010

In 2018, Twitty was the first African American author to receive the James Beard award for Book of the Year. In The Cooking Gene, the independent scholar combined foodways research and memoir to unpack how Black culinary culture shaped his family and life.

Adopted By Bill & Gay Chapman