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 ALCTS Speaker Uncovers Southern Food and Family

CHICAGO—Michael W. Twitty, author of *The Cooking Gene
<https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062379290/the-cooking-gene>* (HarperCollins,
2017), is the featured speaker at the President’s Program of the
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). *The
President’s Program “Dining from a Haunted Plate”
<http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/2018/programs> will be held at 10:30 a.m.
on Monday, June 25, 2018 *during the American Library Association (ALA)
Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, La.

Join Twitty as he discusses his journey to uncover the history of Southern
food in his own family. This talk focuses on his search through the lens of
extensive research at libraries and archives and plantations across the
South and how he translated that journey into food through museum education
and historic interpretation. In tracing his family roots through food from
enslavement to emancipation, from West and Central Africa to the Old South,
his work invites all Southerners of all backgrounds to a complicated,
uncomfortable groaning table rich in heritage and tradition in which new
conversations and connections emerge.

Twitty is a noted culinary and cultural historian and the creator of
Afroculinaria <https://afroculinaria.com/>, the first blog devoted to
African American historic foodways and their legacies. He has been honored
by FirstWeFeast.com as one of the twenty greatest food bloggers of all
time, and named one of the “Fifty People Who Are Changing the South” by
Southern Living and one of the “Five Cheftavists to Watch” by TakePart.com.
Twitty has appeared throughout the media, including on NPR’s The Splendid
Table, and has given more than 250 talks in the United States and abroad.
His work has appeared in Ebony, the Guardian and on NPR.org. He is also a
Smith fellow with the Southern Foodways Alliance, a TED fellow and speaker
and the first Revolutionary in Residence at the Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation. Twitty lives in Silver Spring, Md.

*The Cooking Gene* was recently awarded the 2018 James Beard Award for
Writing and was named the 2018 James Beard Book of the Year.

Following his presentation, Twitty will be signing copies of *The Cooking
Gene* and Preservation Week posters.

ALCTS thanks the University of Kentucky Libraries
<http://libraries.uky.edu/> for their generous sponsorship of the 2018
ALCTS President’s Program.

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
<http://www.ala.org/alcts> is the national association for information
providers who work in collections and technical services, such as
acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, preservation and
continuing resources in digital and print formats. ALCTS is a division of
the American Library Association.
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