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SUMMARY:Rice: An Author Talk with Michael Twitty
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DESCRIPTION:Food writer Michael Twitty joins us to talk about his book\, "
 Rice.".\nhttps://alexandria.libnet.info/event/5092382
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Michael Twitty\, food historian\, writer\,
  and creator of&nbsp\;<a href="https://afroculinaria.com/" target="_blank"
  rel="noopener">Afroculinaria</a>\, joins us to discuss his book&nbsp\;<a 
 href="https://alxndria.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/home/search/detailnonmod
 al/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:526368/ada?qu=Rice" target="_blan
 k" rel="noopener"><em>Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook</em></a>.&nbsp\;<em
 >Rice</em>&nbsp\;is a cookbook that explores that southern staple's culina
 ry history and African diasporic identity. Learn why rice has deep roots i
 n southern food culture.</p>\n<p>Michael W. Twitty is a culinary and cultu
 ral historian and the creator of <a href="https://afroculinaria.com/">Afro
 culinaria</a>\, the first blog devoted to African American historic foodwa
 ys and their legacy. He has been honored by the website First We Feast as 
 one of twenty greatest food bloggers of all time\, and named one of "Fifty
  People Changing the South" by Southern Living. He's also been honored as 
 one of the "Five Cheftavists to Watch" by TakePart.com. Twitty has appeare
 d on NPR's The Splendid Table and Morning Edition and has written for the 
 Guardian\, Ebony\, Local Palate\, and the Washington Post. He's given over
  300 talks in the U.S. and abroad\, including audiences at the Smithsonian
 \, Yale University\, The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery in England\,
  and the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival. He was a 2014 Smith Symposium Fel
 low of the Southern Foodways Alliance and a 2016 TED fellow and speaker\, 
 and was recently honored by Taste Talks with their first Culinary Pioneer 
 Award. Twitty's blog\, Afrioculinaria was honored with both the readers' a
 nd editors' choice awards from Saveur for the best food and culture blog. 
 Twitty is also a Judaics teacher and writes on Jewish cultural issues. He 
 is the first Revolutionary in Residence at Colonial Williamsburg.</p>\n<p>
 Author photo credit: TED</p>\nhttps://alexandria.libnet.info/event/5092382
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