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Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew Hardcover – August 9, 2022

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“Twitty makes the case that Blackness and Judaism coexist in beautiful harmony, and this is manifested in the foods and traditions from both cultures that Black Jews incorporate into their daily lives…Twitty wishes to start a conversation where people celebrate their differences and embrace commonalities. By drawing on personal narratives, his own and others’, and exploring different cultures, Twitty’s book offers important insight into the journeys of Black Jews.”—Library Journal

“A fascinating, cross-cultural smorgasbord grounded in the deep emotional role food plays in two influential American communities.”—Booklist

The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food.

In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation of migrations and a dialogue of diasporas offering a rich background for inventive recipes and the people who create them.

The question that most intrigues him is not just who makes the food, but how the food makes the people. Jews of Color are not outliers, Twitty contends, but significant and meaningful cultural creators in both Black and Jewish civilizations. Koshersoul also explores how food has shaped the journeys of numerous cooks, including Twitty’s own passage to and within Judaism.

As intimate, thought-provoking, and profound as The Cooking Gene, this remarkable book teases the senses as it offers sustenance for the soul.

Koshersoul includes 48-50 recipes.

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“In this fascinating book — which includes recipes — Twitty explores, as he puts it, “the intersections between food and identity.”
— Washington Post

“Twitty makes the case that Blackness and Judaism coexist in beautiful harmony, and this is manifested in the foods and traditions from both cultures that Black Jews incorporate into their daily lives…Twitty wishes to start a conversation where people celebrate their differences and embrace commonalities. By drawing on personal narratives, his own and others’, and exploring different cultures, Twitty’s book offers important insight into the journeys of Black Jews.”
— Library Journal

“…a fascinating, cross-cultural smorgasbord grounded in the deep emotional role food plays in two influential American communities.”
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“Serving up a hefty helping of heart and wit, Twitty’s narrative is thrilling in its originality.”
— Publishers Weekly

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Michael W. Twitty is a noted culinary and cultural historian and the creator of Afroculinaria, the first blog devoted to African American historic foodways and their legacies. He has been honored by FirstWeFeast.com as one of the twenty greatest food bloggers of all time, and named one of the “Fifty People Who Are Changing the South” by Southern Living and one of the “Five Cheftavists to Watch” by TakePart.com. Twitty has appeared throughout the media, including on NPR’s The Splendid Table, and has given more than 250 talks in the United States and abroad. His work has appeared in Ebony, the Guardian, and on NPR.org. He is also a Smith fellow with the Southern Foodways Alliance, a TED fellow and speaker, and the first Revolutionary in Residence at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Twitty lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amistad (August 9, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062891758
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062891754
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches

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Michael W. Twitty is a culinary and cultural historian and the creator of www.Afroculinaria.com, the first blog devoted to African American historic foodways and their legacy. He has been honored by the website First We Feast (www.firstwefeast.com) as one of twenty greatest food bloggers of all time, and named one of “Fifty People Changing the South” by Southern Living. He’s also been honored as one of the “Five Cheftavists to Watch” by TakePart.Com. Twitty has appeared on NPR’s The Splendid Table and Morning Edition and has written for the Guardian, Ebony, Local Palate, and the Washington Post. He’s given over 300 talks in the U.S. and abroad, including audiences at the Smithsonian, Yale University, The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery in England, and the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival. He was a 2014 Smith Symposium Fellow of the Southern Foodways Alliance and a 2016 TED fellow and speaker, and was recently honored by Taste Talks with their first Culinary Pioneer Award. Twitty’s blog, Afrioculinaria was honored with both the readers’ and editors’ choice awards from Saveur for the best food and culture blog. Twitty is also a Judaics teacher and writes on Jewish cultural issues. He is the first Revolutionary in Residence at Colonial Williamsburg.

Favorite Southern foods: barbecue (beef ribs though not necessarily traditional---all the noms), a decent and proper biscuit, red rice, collard greens--no vinegar!, buttermilk pie, okra soup, country captain, sweet potatoes, etoufee, gumbo, jambalaya.

Diva of Choice: Julia Sugarbaker from "Designing Women" or Whitley Gilbert from "A Different World"

Favorite Expression: Bless yo' heart.

Person Likely to Play Me in a Movie: I really want Idris Elba, but I'm getting Anthony Anderson.

If I had Kids I would name them: (All girls) Portico, Verandah and Lanai... I always thought Zephyr would be a cool name for a son.

Nicknames: The Chocolate Chosen TM, Mr. Kosher Soul

Influences: August Wilson, James Baldwin, Marlon Riggs, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Roy Lichenstein, Romare Bearden, Joseph Campbell, Robert Graves, Zora Neale Hurston.

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Judson Matos

A must for those that find them in the middle of two cultures

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While I'm still in the midst of reading this, I know Michael's work and I adore it. I know his food and his heart from everything I've seen. There is a particular passage that is very much true to me, as a Jewish and Black man, that resonates deeply with me.

"We talk about the food we had before and the food we’re going to eat next while eating the meal at hand. We beg of our loved ones to partake in food as if we actually need to eat our oppression. Our stereotypical foods have become shorthand for inside jokes we tell almost definitely at the deepest hatreds facing us. We sprinkle on our food traditions, sarcasm, and irony. Still, there is a lot of memory in our heads, and on our tables, lots of love from parent to child sighs of security when we realize our menus translate our means of survival across millennia."

If that alone doesn't sum me and my family up then I'm sure I'll find that later as I go. Expect more when I finish the book.

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Beautifully presented journey of food and history

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Michael Twitty knows how to get you in the gut. But his is a one-two punch of culinary and history. His words will knock the wind out of you while his recipes fill you back up with inviting comfort. (And it can be a spicy hug.)

Incidents of discrimination are somehow always a surprise and at the same time always expected. Oppression is simply a baseline fear that is carried around by those in the vulnerable minority and many of those who live within a majority are unaware of the constant hurts experienced by those seen as different.
Michael follows his soul through the pages, describing what it feels like to show up with everything you are and be denied the experience of community.

Sharing in his journey has helped me to understand more about my own world and how I can be more compassionate, both to myself and to those around me.

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Where to begin? Michael Twitty is one of the first writers/cooks I think of (if not the first) in the Jewish food space. The passion in his writing leaps from the page and into your soul. I thoroughly enjoyed Koshersould (as I did The Cooking Gene) and can't wait to start trying some of the recipes in the book. Get this book!

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Excellent book

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Once again Mr Twitty has written a book filled with history and incredible recipes. I could not put this book down. Still working through the recipes. I hope he writes more along these lines.

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Unique

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A very interesting read but at times difficult to process

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gorgeous book

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I am savoring every page of this book. Twitty’s blend of memoir, social analysis, religious teaching and learning, food history, and love for communities and families is powerful. I am learning so much. Loved -The Cooking Gene- and am excited that this is the second in a three part sequence. Also love that I can read a few pages each day and enjoy those small “bite sizes” readings or read larger sections together and appreciate his intricate narrative threads. Thanks for this book!

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A book that explores the Jewish and African Diaspora cultures with a good deal of Baltimore history. Very interesting read. There is a recipe section at the end however this is not a cookbook. It is a James Beard Foundation Award winner's continuing personal journey.

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This is good insight into his mindset and approach. Love the personal encounters, as a minority in some cases as THE minority. However, knowledge was imparted that he is not an anomaly in Judaic culture.
Most fascinating of the history and culture knowledge imparted that is not taught or we'll known.
As usual his recipe and menu addition was very enlightening and we'll written.

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