Featured Speaker for Black History Month

More than Slave Food: The African Roots of American Foodways

Michael Twitty, Thursday, February 16, 2012

4:30 pm, Rangos Ballroom 3, University Center

Michael W. Twitty is a writer, culinary historian, and historical interpreter personally charged with preparing, preserving and promoting African foodways, their diffusion during the Diaspora and their legacies in the food culture of the American South.

This presentation will highlight and address food's critical role in the development and definition of African American civilization and the politics of consumption and cultural ownership, as well as preparing some of the foods of this unique tradition.

This lecture is sponsored by the ULS, the Division of Student Affairs, the Humanities Scholars Program and the Department of History's "African and African-American Studies Minor" at Carnegie Mellon.