I need to let you know that you need to read and receive different narratives about Black food culture. By Black I'm referring to self-described, opted in people of African descent. Yes. This is a thread.
High on the Hog, Hog and Hominy, Soul Food, The Jemima Code, and many others including The Cooking Gene are very different takes on specifically African American culinary narratives. More stories can and must be told by different voices.
The Cooking Gene isn't just African American culinary history. It is framed in terms of the journey of an individual... me...&the types of families my journey represents...The South&Great Migration...but back to the source Africa and the African Atlantic world as a whole.
The Jemima Code by @thejemimacode is a catalog of culinary literary criticism that examines Black cookbooks as their own unique genre representing the lives and generations of Black cooks..not just their recipes.
And The Cooking Gene is to my knowledge the first time African American culinary history has been traced through a family line from Africa to America. From slavery to freedom.
We are not monolithic or static. We are a diverse people and our stories have links to one another.
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