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b'Host Bernice Bennett welcomes author,\\xa0Michael W. Twitty for a discussion of his new book,\\xa0The Cooking Gene - A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South.\\n\\nMichael W. Twitty is also the\\xa0author of\\xa0Afroculinaria\\xa0a food blog. As a\\xa0food writer, independent scholar, culinary historian, and historical interpreter, he is\\xa0personally charged with preparing, preserving and promoting African American foodways and its parent traditions in Africa and her Diaspora and the legacy in the food culture of the American South.\\xa0Michael is a Judaic studies teacher from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area and his interests\\xa0include food culture, food history, Jewish cultural issues, African American history and cultural politics. Afroculinaria\\xa0highlights and addresses the critical role of\\xa0 food\\xa0in the development and definition of African American civilization and the politics of consumption and cultural ownership that surround it.'