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.