Please join MoAD Chef-in-Residence Bryant Terry for a lunch-time conversation with Michael Twitty about his new book The Cooking Gene, followed by a book signing.

Michael Twitty, a renowned culinary and cultural historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. He is a noted culinary and cultural historian and the creator of Afroculinaria, the first blog devoted to African American historic foodways and their legacies.‍

Bryant Terry is a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award-winning chef, educator, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. He is currently the Chef-in-Residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco where he curates programming that celebrates the intersection of food, farming, health, activism, art, culture, and the African Diaspora.