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African American Genealogy: The Cooking Gene As Contextual/Culinary Genealogy
Some Things Are Best Planned over a Kitchen Table I believe they call this delayed gratification. I am not resting the same as I once was. I am sleepless at times. I don’t know what day it is. The...
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To My Old Master: Decoding a Race Relations/Blog Hit And What It Really Means
So you’ve probably been reading, sharing and looking at this gem from 1865. It apparently appeared in the New York Daily Tribune: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6790780585_466117fe88_o.jpg...
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The Cooking Gene: A Preview
In April of 1865 a seventeen year old house servant and his brother stood holding their Master’s horse outside of a courthouse in central Virginia, when a bearded man dressed in blue and a bearded man...
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Twenty Reasons Why This Project and This Research is Important
The Project: http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Cooking-Gene-Project-The-Southern-Discomfort-Tour It’s crucial to bring our family together again through food—our family meaning Africa and her Diaspora and...
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Watch Blair Underwood/The Nike Galaxy Shoe/And Why I Want this Project to...
“African Americans are innately wired to want to know who we are. Its almost being like an adopted child.”—Sharon Malone, commentator, “Slavery by Another Name.” A few days ago I almost gave up on The...
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Explaining: Looking for My Families’ Slaveowners
This project is sacred to me and the people who have elected to spend time working on it with me. Making that video was not easy. Although I treated it as though it were a matter of routine, I began...
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From the Family History Files: Appomattox, April 9, 1865
On April 9, 1865, in Appomattox, Virginia my great-great Grandfather Elijah Mitchell was standing with his brother when he witnessed the surrender of Lee to Grant…and this is how he found out that he...
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Meet Edward Booker, Aged 112
Name: Edward Booker Relation: Great-Great-Grandfather of Michael W. Twitty through his paternal grandmother, Eloise Booker Born: 1839 Died: 1953 Where: Prince Edward County, Virginia around the town...
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Are You Really What You Eat? Or are You the Meals that You Cook?
“Over Yonder” Cooking at the Greenmarket We have four days left to raise some 3,000 plus for our campaign. Over 600 people viewed this blog yesterday. If only 180 had made a contribution to our...
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That Cotton Thing…and Food….
Friendly Reminder: Sunday May 6th at 11:59 pm our campaign is done. Its going to mean cutting places, venues, community service opportunies, and losing time to do genealogical research if we don’t...
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