Michael W. Twitty
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African American-Jewish ✡culinary historian/Author:THE COOKING GENE (HarperCollins) #LGBT 🏳️🌈JAMES BEARD AWARD 2018 KOSHERSOUL 2022 JEWISH BOOK OF THE YEAR
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Winner of the 2023 National Jewish Book Council Award for Book of the Year!.
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When ppl say "the woke virus," it reminds me of "drapetomania," during enslavement which meant it was a contagious disease of the nervous system that caused the enslaved to want to run away. In other words, its a disease to say "Stop this injustice& inequity. You're hurting me.".
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#Tulsa dear @MSNBC @CNN we politely request that out of respect for #Juneteenth and the 99th anniversary of the #TulsaMassacre an American pogrom, that you not air any of the Trump campaign speech not even a clip. To heal our nation we make this request. Enough is enough.
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Yeah, I can read without being killed, vote, own property and I'm legally gay married to a (happens to be white) man and I'm Jewish. My New Years gratitude jar is filling up fast. Thanks Madison!.
Our Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize the America we live in today. They would be horrified, and rightfully so.
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If I had a limited edition spice line of 4 mixtures telling the 400 year story of African American foodways would you buy it?.
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Looting is uncalled for. So please return the land to the Dakota and neighboring First Nations. Did I lie?.
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Clarity: .When they say "communism" and "socialism," it is a hand me down from the Civil Rights era and it means racial equality, inclusion, integration and "miscegenation." It also means economic justice and equity. It has nothing to do with textbook communism or socialism.
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For a Black man that has walked the plank for being highly critical of the food world so white, #AnthonyBourdain was special. He called Africa the cradle of civilization, took his cameras to Haiti, honored the hood with Snoop, broke bread with Obama like a human being. .
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PLEASE STOP SAYING SOUL FOOD CAME FROM WHITE PEOPLE'S SCRAPS. It's a complete lie that robs us of our agency, ownership, creativity and resistance and shows a lack of critical thinking and cultural literacy. Damn, I wrote a 400 page book about this with 350 books in the bib. 🤬🤬.
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A great way to honor 2019, the 400th anniversary of African arrival at Jamestown,Virginia. A large portion of my sales go to support people who otherwise could not afford to go on our trips to West Africa. Buy at your local book dealer, B&N, Amazon or Audible. Make this viral!
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Just got verification, I am the first African American author to win book of the year at the James Beard Awards. I am also one of only two non cookbooks to win BOY. Wow. #jbfa
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Matzah Ball Gumbo was conceived by the Black cooks of Southern Ashkenazi Jewish households and represents complex relationships and negotiations from the late 19th century through to today. Its not my innovation, but it is a food tradition that I want to preserve for the future.
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The date has been set. My formal wedding ceremony will take place under the stars on May 30, 2020, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, heaven and earth willing. Bring your own candle.
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Please please stop saying that 45 is "owning" female journalists. He doesn't "own" any woman literally or figuratively. He is just yelling at and disrespecting human beings because they are women and that's his worldview. unbridled misogyny and toxic aggression. #TrumpMeltdown.
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To the folks who thought BLM actually vandalized a cemetery. It was a white boy. they found him. Black ppl ain't trying to summon Zuul. We got enough of our own angry spirits we don't need yours lol.
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When some people say "Christian," they do not mean the heartwarming story of the humble Jewish peasant spiritual teacher directing humanity to a life of faith in our Creator. They mean a war god with softened Nordic features who will help them get revenge.
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Imagine being upset that your son learned the truth about The Black Hills and feeling powerful that your complaint could obstruct the teaching of truth for years to come. My G-d. White supremacy doesn't just wear a hood.
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#NationalComingOutDay I am a 44 year old, Black, Jewish, openly #gay man. I have been out since I was 16 years old. I came out in my high school newspaper. This path has not been easy but know this. I am here. To all my #LGBTQIA family, lets celebrate each other today.
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My step grandmother, Ms. Margaret Twitty, has passed on. She was 100. She was an incredible woman who left behind descendants to her great great grandchildren. South Carolina has lost one of its greatest. May she rest in peace with my Grandaddy.
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NOPE. NOPE. YOU WILL TREAT SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS/THE UNITED STATES WITH THE SAME CLEAR REVULSION AS THE HOLOCAUST/SHOAH AND OTHER HUMAN AGAINST HUMAN TRAGEDIES. NEVER AGAIN.IT WILL NEVER BE ILLEGAL TO ADDRESS OPPRESSION, BIGOTRY, EXPLOITATION AND HATRED. EVER.
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Queer Eye but it's a panel of Black, Native American, East and South Asian, Latinx, Pacific Islander and Middle Eastern chefs trying to convince Gordon Ramsay that he can't best them at their own culinary game.
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I am in #Senegal where the test for #COVIDー19 takes 4 hours turnover. #TrumpPlague I guess I know where the #shithole is and where it is not. #Africa.
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ON THE BON APPETIT JUNETEENTH ARTICLE. 1. Was written LAST year. 2. Chef Omar demanded Black photographers, food writers, and fellow chefs for this piece. That's how I got the job. 3. The article delves into systemic issues¬ just a feel good piece. 4. I was paid fairly.
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My beautiful friend from high school just died the other day from Covid. Her name was Yvonne. She left two kids behind. Real America was my friend.
Real America is done with #COVID19. The only people who don’t understand that are Fauci and Biden.
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I am thankful for the Native American/First Nations and their thousands of years old genius for food and agricultural domestication that has so richly blessed the human family.
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Unlike Eric Garner where his last breaths were obscured. #GeorgeFloyd 's last moments are clearly visible. He drools, he makes a guttural gasp, he dies. Unobscured. My grandmother abd grandmother saw this in their time, why am I seeing it now and even worse at any moment its me.
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Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Sit Down.
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I dedicate this #Juneteenth to my Ancestors who were born into enslavement and saw the day of Jubilee. ❤ .Edward Booker 1839-1951 VA.Hester Haines 1828-1920 SC/AL.Hattie Bellamy 1862-1923 AL.Elijah Mitchell 1848-1920s (he actually was at the surrender of Lee to Grant.) VA
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#RoyalWedding y'all done let a Black preacher up in an English wedding. just bought yourselves 5 more hours. Hope somebody brought potato salad 😉.
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#AnthonyBourdain did not exploit race or religion or other human conflicts, rather he illuminated how food played a role in the deep passions behind those conflicts and challenged us to not see bad or good but human.
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Black folks loved this man because he didn't appropriate, when it came to us all he could do was celebrate. He told the world we were the center of Southern&Brazilian food and he let us speak for ourselves. #AnthonyBourdain was the John Brown of food media.
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Hey everyone,sad news. My ex partner Jacob, who was instrumental in the Southern Discomfort Tou&the work that led to The Cooking Gene, passed last month at the age of 34. We were together for 9 years&he will always have a place in my heart. Goodnight HausMaus. I am heartbroken.
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No, you will not kill my people. And you will not cut down The Tree of Life. We aren't all the same but we are one people. #NEVERAGAIN #Pittsburgh
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Hi everyone. Please say refuah shleimah for me. Pray for my health and well being. Manageable but ugh stuff going on. But I'm grateful to be here and appreciate the love and great vibes. My first hospital visit. I am not feeling like me. I'm officially middle aged.
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If I had a real deal farm to table restaurant. rustic. in a 300 year old Southern locale with huge gardens right there and a place where you could see me doing historic cooking but go get the same food from the restaurant would you come?.
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URGENT: PLEASE HELP ME RAISE FUNDS TO REPAIR AND REOPEN WHITNEY PLANTATION. ONE OF THE ONLY SITES THAT TELLS THE STORY OF ENSLAVEMENT FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE ENSLAVED. LINK HERE:
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I'm thinking of doing a 1.5 hour zoom class on Black Food, Black Resistance and Black Joy, for #BlackHistoryMonth anyone interested so I can make up my mind?.
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So #coronavirus disrupted our plans but @warjikin and I are still having a civil marriage and hopefully a ceremony next year. Until then, artist Roberth Fearon @ fearonart on IG, just finished this wedding portrait and I'm emotional bc. I'm emotional. #LGBT #LGBTQuarenteners
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#Jewish we aren't just traumas and issues&"oh hell whats up with them now. " we are our joys and things that are happy or peaceful or satisfying& substantial. 50 Joys of Jewish, a thread. 1. Its the smell of challah baking or warming on Friday. Continued. .
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I just had a bit of a cry out. Listening to @chrislhayes describe the 6th child who has died in ICE custody&the cavalier way its accepted that ICE cops think of their prey as "subhuman" &"shit." You will never be a shining city on a hill if you are hell on earth. #ImpeachmentNOW.
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Who is looking forward to "Koshersoul: An African American Jewish Food Journey?".
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I am sad to report that my grandfather, Gonze Lee Twitty, aged 99, a founder of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives,tireless activist for the rights of Black farmers,joined our Ancestors&his Lord this morning. Rest in Power Granddaddy! Picture below from 2009 inauguration.
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So did the white dudes that owned my family Mr. Yang.
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This is currently your country. The Civil War isn't over.
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You cannot say that North Carolina went for Donald Trump as long as voter suppression invalidated thousands of Black votes for very simple errors during a pandemic. Any other narrative is normalized racism.
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Hi everyone. My Mom passed away today in 2014. I just wanted to honor her memory. The first song I heard today was James Taylor "You've Got a Friend." Very special. Love you Mom.
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Pray for me. A former ex I have learned died earlier this year. April. He was abusive but we had been around each other for 15 years. He died a horrible miserable death. I don't know how to feel. I am beside myself and despite it all hope he is at peace. I dont know what to do.
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There were over 493 lynchings in Jason's home state of Texas. To say that people facing "violent mobs" is the most un-American thing ever. is to erase part of our origin story and by erasure deny and by denial bear false witness. Nobody in these images ever faced justice.
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I was MIA for three days on the Northern Neck of Virginia: . This is what we were doing. it gets better.
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A white lady got mad at me for making a jocular comment and I wrote back:
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Put Dolly away for safekeeping until 1 am.
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We need to pitch in and buy @maddow and her wife Susan a safe and healthy cruise. She had that, "Is this fool furreal?" Sigh tonight. I was living for it but Lord she deserves some time to chill and get away from the nonsense!.We love you Rachel!.
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As if. Y'all don't want to talk abt the Middle Passage and hypertension or the diff between celebration food and everyday soul. You just want to make Black food into a pathology and not deal with racism or the need to embrace African food. So fuck off
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Dear Jews visiting from Baltimore today at Williamsburg. when I said "Shana Tovah," I wasn't being a nice gentile. I am a Jew. Once I explained myself and said Ani Yehudi,.Thank you is an inappropriate response. And you ran off. & acted weird. Rejection is exhausting.
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"Because once my Italian American parents were grandfathered into arbitrary whiteness, I won the societal lottery and stopped caring about the general welfare of other marginalized people in this society, justice and moral suasion be damned. " something like that???
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Husband points out, like "the awful connection made between women &hysteria." Your problem isn't mistreatment its your womanly ways and parts (hysteria comes from the Latin for "womb." .Blame the oppressed&marginalized and gaslight them until they internalize it. @kathygriffin.
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I like my high school teachers heavily armed with Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Joseph Heller, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ray Bradbury, Vine Deloria Jr., Amy Tan and Isabel Allende.
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Let's make this clear:.Professors&corporate folks;.Please don't invite me to speak without offering an honorarium, travel&if necessary accommodations. Just because I interpret our enslaved Ancestors doesn't mean I want to be unpaid like one. THIS IS MY LIVELIHOOD NOT A HOBBY.
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VACCINATION SHOULD BE A WORLD PRIORITY ACROSS AFRICA AND THR ENTIRE GLOBAL SOUTH. UNTIL EVERYONE IS VACCINATED WE ARE ALL IN TROUBLE. THIS ISNT JUST ABOUT THE WEST.
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For those incredulous over the banning of #Maus, just remember the real reason. It's not cuss words/nudity. it's anything that impugns the common enemy of white supremacy. Its a gateway into squashing anything that might hold accountable or responsible those who profess it.
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That feeling when your haters on Twitter don't care about what you have to say. but the Smithsonian does.
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REST IN POWER Congressman #ElijahCummings .We will NOT disappoint you. "Enough is enough."
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@RepLizCheney Remember when Dr. King was a "dangerous communist?" One who wanted to "destroy America?" . Same bullshit. New day. No thanks Cheney. Your name has blood on it.
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Plantation owners: the largest group of deadbeat daddies in American history and the reason why most hardcore racists have Black family and don't know it.
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When my grandparents told me about Alabama I said "Why didn't anyone call the police on the Klan?" They said. the law was the Klan and the Klan was the law.". That gives me chills today.
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Grammarly thinks I'm an Angry Black man because of my essay about Black food history, resistance, and Black joy. Wtf
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In not so nice news my gay "Dad" passed away 7 days ago. Not from Covid but just the same I am low key grieving. I knew it was coming, but something in me hoped fornot until next year or beyond. Anyhow, its just me going say a prayer for Corey Andrew Proffitt. He was a good man.
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. nobody braided seeds in their hair on the Middle Passage. hush puppies were not invented to run away from the slavecatchers. scraps were not thrown down to the enslaved&turned into soul food delicacies.Our history is incredible without the fakelore. #BlackHistoryMonth.
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One of the things that the enslaving culture never got over was an African that could read, but even worse was an African that could write. The current war against Black literature and Black writers is just an unresolved sickness from the Antebellum past. But fascism is futile.
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Real talk: young Mandy Patinkin was like THE most underrated Jewish sex symbol of all time. I totally had a crush on him.
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To a lot of people Leslie Jordan was a gem. To gen x and millennial and z queer men #LeslieJordan was something we craved. a link to our past, a vibrant present and hope for our futures as confident and beloved gay elders. Something the Plague often denied us.
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#Koshersoul #TheCookingGene .My Ladies are gone :( rest in peace and power Ilse and Ruth, survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Is this a good enough Sunday dinner menu?.Fried chicken.Barbecued Brisket.Collard Greens w kosher lamb bacon.Macaroni and Cheese (I eat mine first).Mason-Dixon Yams (we grew them).Peach Cobbler (streusel rather).Fresh brewed Iced Tea (sweeten your own).
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Can we agree that if you are Black, Brown, Jewish, Muslim, LGBT, disabled, east or South Asian or Pacific Islander and you are Proud Boy or went to the Trump rally. you don't get to come to the cookout no more. .
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Seder two .Matzah meal fried chicken.Matzah Ball Gumbo.Two plates.Kiddush cup/Sankofa.I love #Passover
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I may never forgive those cops for treating D*lan R**f to Burger King after murdering our Charleston kinfolk. Everytime I think about that I want to scream.
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Sweet potato biscuits made with the White Yam or Hayman Sweet Potato from the Chesapeake region. They have a soft light spongy texture and a subtle sweetness like butternut squash or pumpkin
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Please record and report all anti-Semitic and anti-Black tweets associated with the KR verdict. People don't believe us that this is being used as a rally cry by the far right. We will write the truth before its erased.
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I came out when I was 16. I'm 44. I am so grateful that I've lived a complicated but blessed life as a gay man. I fought for this existence. I'm good.
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#DrSeuss taking out 6 books out of rotation out of many and apologizing for anti-Black and anti-Asian imagery isn't "cancel culture".It's called being responsible in a Multicultural society*maturing. After the renewed commitment to racism and hatred in 2020/2021 this is tzedek.
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The Melting Pot is about destruction not inclusion.
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