Koshersoul (paperback) : The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew

Paperback edition. 

The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food.

In Koshersoul, culinary historian and James Beard Award–winning author Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinct culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish Diaspora. The creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation of migrations and a dialogue of diasporas offering a rich background for inventive recipes and the people who create them. Yet, the question that most intrigues Twitty is not who makes the food, but how the food makes the people. Jews of Color are not outliers, but significant and meaningful cultural creators in both Black and Jewish civilizations. In recounting his own passage to and within Judaism, Twitty explores how food has shaped the journeys of numerous cooks.

As intimate, thought-provoking, and profound as The Cooking Gene, this timely, remarkable food memoir teases the senses as it offers sustenance for the soul.