Review: The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty

‪The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty (@thecookinggene) took me places I wasn’t expecting to go! Like, y’all don’t understand. I LIVED in Charleston, SC (while in college) for 2.5 years and yet still learned so much about it from this book.
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In the middle of the book, I thought to myself….I’ve never been so excited to read a chapter in my life. Learning about the Gullah-Geechee’s of Charleston and how they came to be. I’ve always been fascinated when it came to the language and how peeps born and raised in SC, speak like they’re from the islands. lol It also speaks on Low Country cooking and how it too came to be. It was so cool to read up on the history of a place that i lived in for a couple years.
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I’m appreciative of all the research and effort that Mr. Twitty put into this book. I am a foodie and it was interesting to hear about all of the comfort foods that we eat so often, how our ancestors grew and prepared them and the origins in which they came from. Our ancestors played such a vital role in the foods we consume today.
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I highly recommend this read. A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read for me. A true gem that I will cherish and definitely revisit again!