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History of several kinds

The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty

November 30, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I have to admit up front that I did not completely finish The Cooking Gene; I had it from the library and ran out of renewals before I had to return it. This is not a fast read if you want to really get the content and the feeling. I don’t mean that the style is hard to read; on the contrary, it’s written in a pretty conversational way. What made it slower for me was the depth of what was being presented. This came […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, african american history, American History, auto-biography, food history, lgbtq history, Michael Twitty, non fiction, slave history, The Cooking Gene

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:84 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, african american history, American History, auto-biography, food history, lgbtq history, Michael Twitty, non fiction, slave history, The Cooking Gene ·
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