“Koshersoul:” Cooking and Storytelling with Michael Twitty and Jane Ziegelman

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In his new book, Koshersoul, acclaimed author Michael Twitty peers into the pots and pans of Jewish and Black Americans and finds the culinary traditions that define who we are. What he also finds are the many parallels between the “outsider” communities of which he is a part. Join Twitty and food historian Jane Ziegelman for a tantalizing conversation about collard greens and kreplach, hot pepper and horseradish, the time-honored foods that nourish and sustain us.  

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, 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 in numerous media 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.  

Jane Ziegelman, a James Beard Award winning food historian, is the author of 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement, and  A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, which she wrote together with her husband, Andrew Coe. She lives in Brooklyn. 

Photo Credit: Michael Twitty © Brett Hartman.