Event time:
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - 6:00pm
Location:
The E-Room of the House
211 Park Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Michael Twitty on Culinary Justice and The Cooking Gene
Wednesday, September 28, 6:00 pm
Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park Street
Thursday, September 29, 4:00 pm
Calhoun House, 189 Elm Street
Twitty will give a lecture on Wednesday and a College Tea on Thursday. A writer, culinary historian, and teacher, Michael Twitty blogs about Judaic studies, food culture and history, and African American history and cultural politics. The Cooking Gene, his forthcoming book, is Michael’s personal mission to document the connection between the interwoven histories of food, family, slavery, and freedom from Africa to America. Co-sponsored by the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration.
Admission:
Free