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(Jewish Group) 'Koshersoul' author and chef Michael Twitty coming to JCCSF
Award-winning author Michael Twitty will be at the JCC of San Francisco in conversation with Maggid Jhos Singer at 7 p.m. Aug. 15 to talk about his new book, “Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew.”
“Koshersoul” is a meditation on the intertwining of the two diasporic food cultures Twitty identifies with, African and Jewish. His last book, “The Cooking Gene,” won a James Beard Award. Twitty has visited the Bay Area before, both to speak and to participate in Be’chol Lashon’s camp for Jews of color.
Books will be sold by Omnivore Books. Tickets are $20. Visit jccsf.org for details.
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Camp for Jews of color gets a visit from suddenly famous culinary star
Some people have an exact date or event when their lives were forever changed. Culinary historian Michael Twitty is one of those people.
Twitty, who lives in Rockville, Md., is an independent scholar studying the foodways of African American slaves in the South. He was a scholar-in-residence at a three-day Be’chol Lashon Family Camp — a retreat for Jews of color — held last month in Petaluma.
For years, Twitty, 36, who is a black convert to Judaism with some Jewish ancestry on his mother’s side, was working in relative obscurity as a scholar, supplementing his income by teaching Hebrew school.
Last year, a June 25 post on Afroculinaria.com, his personal blog, changed all that.
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Some people have an exact date or event when their lives were forever changed. Culinary historian Michael Twitty is one of those people.
Twitty, who lives in Rockville, Md., is an independent scholar studying the foodways of African American slaves in the South. He was a scholar-in-residence at a three-day Be’chol Lashon Family Camp — a retreat for Jews of color — held last month in Petaluma.
For years, Twitty, 36, who is a black convert to Judaism with some Jewish ancestry on his mother’s side, was working in relative obscurity as a scholar, supplementing his income by teaching Hebrew school.
Last year, a June 25 post on Afroculinaria.com, his personal blog, changed all that.
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Black historian of southern cooking brings side of Jewish identity to S.F.
One might not expect to find a chapter titled “Mishpocheh” in Michael Twitty’s memoir chronicling his “journey through African-American culinary history in the Old South.”
But then, Twitty is an unusual guy. Gay, black and a Modern Orthodox Jew, he is a chef, food blogger, culinary historian, Jewish educator and Colonial Williamsburg’s first Revolutionary-in-Residence.
And now he is the author of “The Cooking Gene,” which follows his very personal quest to “document the connection between food history and family history from Africa to America, from slavery to freedom.”
“Someone once called me a polyman,” Twitty said in a recent phone interview from his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. “I thought that [description] was very good.”
The creator of the food blog Afroculinaria — who goes by the Twitter handle @koshersoul — will be in San Francisco on Aug. 29 for an event with the Museum of the African Diaspora titled “Diaspora Dinner.” Twitty, who designed the dinner menu with MoAD chef-in-residence Bryant Terry, is the keynote speaker.
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One might not expect to find a chapter titled “Mishpocheh” in Michael Twitty’s memoir chronicling his “journey through African-American culinary history in the Old South.”
But then, Twitty is an unusual guy. Gay, black and a Modern Orthodox Jew, he is a chef, food blogger, culinary historian, Jewish educator and Colonial Williamsburg’s first Revolutionary-in-Residence.
And now he is the author of “The Cooking Gene,” which follows his very personal quest to “document the connection between food history and family history from Africa to America, from slavery to freedom.”
“Someone once called me a polyman,” Twitty said in a recent phone interview from his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. “I thought that [description] was very good.”
The creator of the food blog Afroculinaria — who goes by the Twitter handle @koshersoul — will be in San Francisco on Aug. 29 for an event with the Museum of the African Diaspora titled “Diaspora Dinner.” Twitty, who designed the dinner menu with MoAD chef-in-residence Bryant Terry, is the keynote speaker.
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I had never heard of him, so I found this to be quite interesting. Anyone in SF able to attend? If so, report back!!