{"id":15011,"date":"2019-10-13T15:06:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/?p=15011"},"modified":"2019-10-13T15:06:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T19:06:14","slug":"we-dont-know-our-history-or-at-least-we-dont-want-to-admit-where-we-are-placed-in-history-michael-w-twitty-comes-to-frostburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/we-dont-know-our-history-or-at-least-we-dont-want-to-admit-where-we-are-placed-in-history-michael-w-twitty-comes-to-frostburg\/","title":{"rendered":"“We Don\u2019t Know Our History. Or, At Least We Don\u2019t Want to Admit Where We Are Placed in History.” Michael W. Twitty Comes to Frostburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael W. Twitty is a food writer, independent scholar, culinary historian, and historical interpreter. He is also the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cooking Gene<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which won the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Book of the Year. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cooking Gene <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was a finalist for The Kirkus Prize in nonfiction, the Art of Eating Prize and a Barnes and Noble New Discoveries finalist in nonfiction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitty also runs a food blog titled \u201cAfroculinaria,\u201d which covers \u201cfood\u2019s critical role in the development and definition of African American civilization and the politics of consumption and cultural ownership that surrounds it\u201d (Afroculinaria).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In one of his recent essays titled, \u201cDear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Sit Down,\u201d Twitty remarks, \u201cFor over a decade I have been working towards my personal goal of being the first Black chef in 150 years to master the cooking traditions of my colonial and Antebellum ancestors. Five trips to six West African nations and more on the way, and having cooked in almost every former slaveholding state beneath the Mason-Dixon line, my work is constant, unrelenting mostly because I have to carve my way through a forest of stereotypes and misunderstandings to bring our heritage to life. I also just want to preserve the roots of our cooking before they\u2019re gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Thursday, Oct. 10, Twitty hosted an evening reading in the Lyric Theatre on Frostburg\u2019s Main Street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jennifer Browne introduced the night, mentioning that Twitty describes himself as an \u201cAfrican American, gay, Jewish, culinary historian.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, a third of our soldiers during the Civil War, fought for the Confederacy in Maryland. I\u2019m actually not complaining about that, because, had Lincoln not locked up Taney and others, I might not be on this stage for the right reasons. So I\u2019m kinda grateful some past in history happened so I can be up here free, equal, and literate. So, I\u2019m not complaining, I\u2019m just saying we don\u2019t know our history. Or, at least we don\u2019t want to admit where we are placed in history,\u201d Twitty remarked.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15016\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030020.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15016\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15016\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/we-dont-know-our-history-or-at-least-we-dont-want-to-admit-where-we-are-placed-in-history-michael-w-twitty-comes-to-frostburg\/thumbnail_p1030020\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030020.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"thumbnail_P1030020\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Photo by: Jordan Beachy.<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030020-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030020-1024x768.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15016\" src=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030020-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by: Jordan Beachy.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030020-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030020-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030020-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030020-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030020.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">“We don’t want to admit our place in history.” Photo by: Jordan Beachy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI will say this. Southern history should not be centered in the Civil War. A lot happened before 1860, 1861. And a hell of a lot happened afterwards. And what we do, is we tend to annihilate that history. You\u2019re annihilating other stories that are peculiar to the Southern experience, that happened outside of the boundaries of what people traditionally consider \u201cthe South\u201d. Confederacy does not equal the South. Confederacy equals one part of the South. And when you look at those maps in the textbooks, not all of that territory was Confederate territory. There were huge squads of territory where people were just like, \u201cI have no dog in this fight, why are you including me in this?\u201d So, there\u2019s this inaccurate sense of history.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15018\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030030.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15018\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/we-dont-know-our-history-or-at-least-we-dont-want-to-admit-where-we-are-placed-in-history-michael-w-twitty-comes-to-frostburg\/thumbnail_p1030030\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030030.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"thumbnail_P1030030\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Photo by: Jordan Beachy <\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030030-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030030-1024x768.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15018\" src=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030030-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by: Jordan Beachy \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030030-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030030-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030030-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030030-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030030.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">“So, there’s this inaccurate sense of history.” Photo by: Jordan Beachy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitty added, \u201cBut, we do have tenant farming and sharecropping and the legacy of tobacco in this state (Maryland), and you can\u2019t deal with that unless you know the rest of your history. And how those created certain things, or how redlining in Baltimore ultimately came from colonial Antebellum slavery, down through how new immigrant groups related to an Aristocratic plantation system. That\u2019s very complex, a lot of big words. But, the bottom line is, we cannot extract Maryland from the larger story of the American South. To do so, is dishonest and disrespectful to all the people who lived and died in this state.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitty recalled a time he presented at a literary festival in Mississippi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy first argument is that to know where my family came from, and to marry that with \u201cI\u2019m interested in food, cooking, etc.\u201d was a big deal. To kind of trace back the Mosaic pieces that allowed me, because African American genealogy is really really hard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnother part is acknowledging how deeply invested Southern culture is from it\u2019s African roots.You can\u2019t extract the two. And for a lot of people, when they hear \u201cAfrica,\u201d they still think \u201cTarzan\u201d, they still think \u201cthe Sarengettee\u201d, they still think \u201cthe Lion King,\u201d you can\u2019t get \u201cthat Africa\u201d out of their heads, the Africa that has no ability to write its own history. The Africa that has no standing on the world stage with other human beings. When, ain\u2019t nobody in this room is free from African ancestry. We all come from there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In regards to the Mississippi audience, Twitty recalled, \u201cYou realize how much your food culture, music culture and religious culture and even your political culture has been the reaction to people like me. How much of your identity is invested in either anti-blackness, appropriating blackness, or the fact that you have, not even a trickle down, it\u2019s a flood,of African, Afro-Atlantic, and black culture, through the generations, they looked at me like they have never heard this before, couldn\u2019t even conceive of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitty went onto mention when he was signing books at this festival after his presentation, he received remarks such as \u201cWell, I used to have a colored nanny.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Frostburg audience laughed as Twitty commented on this experience, \u201cWhat? She was what? Did you use crayons? What was the deal?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut I wasn\u2019t upset, I wasn\u2019t so much bothered by that fact than the fact of okay, so how did this African American woman raise you? What did she make y\u2019all for dinner? Was it roast beef and Yorkshires? Or perhaps, was it croissants? Nah, it was okra and some rice and some barbecue and some catfish, wasn\u2019t it? Okay, cool. You know what they eat in Senegal, Nigeria, and Ghana? Catfish. You know what they grow in other countries? Rice.You know where okra comes from? West Africa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Twitty\u00a0 further discussed various examples involving food, dance, clothing, music, etc. that plays a role in the American culture as a result of\u00a0 African influence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat exactly did you do that didn\u2019t come from black and brown people? Where did Elvis learn to play the guitar from? A black man. Jimmy Rogers? Black man. So what you\u2019re telling me is that, we have a co-created culture, over 400 years, that is European, Native American, and African? That we have been co-created for quite some time, but yet, constantly annihilating the existence and presence of the black woman and man. So, that was my talk to Mississippi.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15019\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15019\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030021.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15019\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/we-dont-know-our-history-or-at-least-we-dont-want-to-admit-where-we-are-placed-in-history-michael-w-twitty-comes-to-frostburg\/thumbnail_p1030021\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030021.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"thumbnail_P1030021\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Photo by: Jordan Beachy <\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030021-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030021-1024x768.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15019\" src=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030021-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by: Jordan Beachy \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030021-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030021-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030021-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030021-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030021.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Yeah, the cooking, the <em>cooking<\/em>, Paula. They did all the cooking. Not your Grandmammy. No, it was us black people.”\u00a0Photo by: Jordan Beachy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ll never forget Paula Deen saying some nonsense about how her grandmother invented her cakes. Bye, Paula.You know your Grandma didn\u2019t invent nothing. Then when they went on Ancestry, and were like yeah, your Great Grandaddy had all these enslaved people, and they did all the cooking. Yeah, the cooking, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cooking<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Paula. They did all the cooking. Not your Grandmammy. No, it was, us, black people. You\u2019re still stealing recipes, Paula. I don\u2019t know if you know this, but, the lady who actually did all the recipes for her restaurants and her own cookbook, that\u2019s where Paula got them from.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut that\u2019s why I said what I said because I want people to understand. There\u2019s all these amazing black chefs and they\u2019re not just doing something for the soul food, they\u2019re doing everything you don\u2019t take pictures of. Cause you\u2019re so interested in investment, making Paula Deen and Paul Prudhomme and Tyler Florence the faces of Southern foods; the multi-billion dollar industry that our ancestors created. And then you tell us we have no heritage, we don\u2019t come from nothing, if only we would just assimilate and get rid of our civilization, everything would just be great for us. When clearly, that would not work. I mean, aren\u2019t y\u2019all grateful that you don\u2019t listen to Lawrence Wilke and the polka everyday? Cause, I\u2019m tellin\u2019 you, America without black people is scary as hell.\u201d The audience laughed and nodded, agreeing with Twitty.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15015\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030014.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15015\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15015\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/we-dont-know-our-history-or-at-least-we-dont-want-to-admit-where-we-are-placed-in-history-michael-w-twitty-comes-to-frostburg\/thumbnail_p1030014\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030014.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"thumbnail_P1030014\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Photo by: Jordan Beachy <\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030014-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030014-1024x768.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15015\" src=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by: Jordan Beachy \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030014-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030014-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030014-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thumbnail_P1030014.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The audience listens closely as Twitty talks about the origin of “soul food.” Photo by: Jordan Beachy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitty talked about his various trips to West Africa, mentioning their food traditions\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to talk about the food, without talking about the politics and economy and gender issues, etc. that go along with it. A cookbook isn\u2019t just a cookbook. Food stories aren\u2019t just food stories. It\u2019s free food just runnin\u2019 around, right? And food can be tasty in the right hands. But, it also tells the story of the first person who came up and goes, \u201cYou know what? We\u2019re gonna eat that.\u201d And then, the person makes the gravy for it, and there\u2019s a lot of love. With people, love and emotion often accompany food. But, what if you\u2019re enslaved? What if you lived that life? What if you\u2019re exiled? How do you use food to tell about love in a space where there\u2019s not much love? What do you do with yourself?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere do I come from? After years of people going, \u201cWell, you know, Michael, we\u2019re all African Americans.\u201d Okay, you can keep that. Or, \u201cI\u2019m South African, that makes me an African American.\u201d Actually, baby it don\u2019t. Or, \u201cWhy do we have to say African, why not just Americans?\u201d You\u2019re separating yourself. I grew up with Baltimore ethnic folks, New York ethnic folks, and Jersey ethnic folks. They had no problem saying to the world, \u201cWe\u2019re Greek, we\u2019re Polish, we\u2019re Italian,e etc.\u201d Fine, that\u2019s cool. That\u2019s cool. But, where do I fit in all of this? So, that was a big question. Growing up in suburban Maryland with a lot of different ethnic groups, trying to figure myself out in that space was very important. But, I also realized what the hallmarks of the culture were: words, recipes, language. When you step into someone\u2019s house, you pick up on the little pieces of their culture. It\u2019s not just the food itself, it\u2019s the sociological architecture around the food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFood history is fun. It challenges you, it makes you respect cultures, respect people, respect women who otherwise, would not have a name in history.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitty talked about heartbreaking stories involving the slave trade and slavery in the U.S.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what soul food and our spirituality and our food is all about. Our tradition is about our migrations, our pain, our suffering. But, it\u2019s also about our survival, our happiness, and our love for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood is how I chose to look at the connective tissue through all these different parts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael W. Twitty is a food writer, independent scholar, culinary historian, and historical interpreter. He is also the author of The Cooking Gene, which won the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Book of the Year. 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