How long does it take to read The Cooking Gene?
A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Michael Twitty
The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty takes about 8 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 27 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2017. 461 pages, about 126,775 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who “owns” it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine.
Subjects: Genealogy, Food, American Cooking, Genetic genealogy, African American cooking, African Americans
