The Cooking Gene

Available from Book Larder when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Limited number of Signed Copies now available! Paperback. A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over