{"id":2550,"date":"2020-09-05T17:56:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2020-09-05T17:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T21:56:45","slug":"charley-blount-blog-post-9-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/05\/charley-blount-blog-post-9-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Charley Blount Blog Post (9\/7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The opening chapters of Michael Twitty\u2019s book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cooking Gene<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, shed a light on the underrepresentation of non-white culture in American society. For 400 years, white people have held a monopoly on American culture, making it difficult to discover and enjoy cultures that do not meet the cookie-cutter standards of \u201ctraditional American culture.\u201d Specifically, Twitty discusses the origins of culture in food, identifying the slave plantations as the bedrock of southern food.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These origin stories are often neglected due to a lack of historical evidence as well as a reluctance by some in the African-American community to revisit a history of\u00a0 southern culture plagued by slavery Jim Crow. This attitude is changing, though, as the \u201cmodern South is \u2026 beginning to engage the relationship between the racial divide, class divisions, and cultural fissures that have tainted the journey to contemporary Southern cuisine\u201d (Twitty 6). Twitty embodies a newfound willingness to pursue the roots of southern food. In his book, he describes his childhood memories of trying new foods and learning how to cook traditional African-American meals that included foods such as okra and field peas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One story in particular struck me because it closely resembles my experiences with southern food. When Twitty took a trip to the South with his dad, they stopped at a restaurant and Twitty said, \u201cSo they give you all you want to drink, and lots of chicken and stuff, but there\u2019s flies everywhere and it\u2019s really hot all the time?\u201d (Twitty 52). His description of a southern restaurant is very close to the experiences I\u2019ve had in similar situations. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening chapters of Michael Twitty\u2019s book, The Cooking Gene, shed a light on the underrepresentation of non-white culture in American society. For 400 years,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/05\/charley-blount-blog-post-9-7\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charley Blount Blog Post (9\/7)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}