UC presents lecture on liberal arts featuring Michael W. Twitty – University of Cincinnati

Twittys work lives at the intersection of traditionsAfrican, southern, and Jewish cultures. Through the lens of culinary arts, he explores history, heritage, faith, identity, social justice, and the human condition in his memoirs and award-winning blog Afroculinaria, and his writings have earned him a Fifty People Who Are Changing the South designation by Southern Living magazine.

His memoir The Cooking Gene received a James Beard Award, and this year his memoir KosherSoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew received a National Jewish Book Award.

An autodidact with a ferocious appetite for learning, Twitty is a disciple of the liberal arts. His life and work have had him crisscross the countryand the globeexploring culture and heritage through his unique culinary lens.

Michael Twitty is such an amazing and unique blend of elements of the liberal arts, and because he learned so much outside the university, he is really a great ambassador for how these disciplines exist in the real world and why they matter, says Jennifer Caplan, author and Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies at UC.

He is an anthropologist, a botanist and biologist, a cultural historian, a writer, and a thinker. He lives at the intersection of so many different cultures and groups, and he speaks and writes eloquently and brilliantly about them all. He is the liberal arts!

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