Dennis’s Reviews > The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South > Status Update

“Put all that together from not learning my history at school and learning a little at home, I feel fraudulent as I didn’t know my roots. I didn’t know where to start. We need a blueprint as individuals and as a people. We live in a puzzle where the pieces don’t even fit together. We need a path so we can put it all together again”

African American history, but I feel similar with Jews today too

“Your plate is your flag”

Pretty way to describe a minority’s culture and how you can celebrate it. He ties it to his Southern identity and the southern cooking, but he says “you need a homeland” to cook from and about. Just interesting way to put it.

Listening to this story finally through Libby. Southern culture and food. Interesting to hear more of this history and experience of an African American in the South.