The ethnic cuisine of African Americans originating in the American South from the cuisines of enslaved Africans transported from Africa through the Atlantic slave trade

The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South / Michael W. Twitty.

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African American cooking

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The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South / Michael W. Twitty.