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Michael Twitty is a food writer, recipe developer and author. African American-Jewish ✡culinary historian/Author:THE COOKING GENE (HarperCollins) #LGBT 🏳️‍🌈JAMES BEARD AWARD 2018 KOSHERSOUL 2022 JEWISH BOOK OF THE YEAR

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Book Cover for: The World Doesn't Require You: Stories, Rion Amilcar Scott

The World Doesn't Require You: Stories

Rion Amilcar Scott
Michael W. TwittyMichael W. Twitty

If you like short fiction that is rich layered and deeply rooted....get this book this #juneteenth2022 #theworlddoesnoteequireyou

Paperback, 2020

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sula, Toni Morrison

Sula

Toni Morrison
Michael W. TwittyMichael W. Twitty

10 things that mark me as random: 1. The portraits of Weegee. 2. Miami Sound Machine. 3. Anything @CecilBaldwinIII does 4. Romare Bearden&Roy Lichtenstein 5. Toni Morrison's Sula. 6. Extinct animals. 7. Herbalism 8. The Ballroom Scene 9. Rabbi Zusya 10. Black Surrealism

Hardcover, 2002

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew, Michael W. Twitty

Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew

Michael W. Twitty
Michael W. TwittyMichael W. Twitty

One of my big influences for #Koshersoul is a book called Miriam's Kitchen. And I'm going to bring this book up often because it shows a discrepancy between the way some ppl might view my book vs. Others (1)

Paperback, 2023

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems, Maya Angelou

And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems

Maya Angelou
Michael W. TwittyMichael W. Twitty

I wish all these people being nasty about #KetanjiBrownJackson quoting Maya Angelou's "And Still I Rise," knew a damn thing about enslavement or much of our history at all. I'm going to leave this here. I find this hysteria and Sturm and Drahng humiliating for her detractors. https://t.co/tKmc63YeOx

Hardcover, 1978

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue, Adrian Miller

Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue

Adrian Miller
Michael W. TwittyMichael W. Twitty

@stuartcturnbull The Cooking Gene by me Savage Barbecue Black Smoke by Adrian Miller Any taped programs or writings by Howard Conyers

Hardcover, 2021

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book