Culinary historian Michael Twitty tells his family's story through food in The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, going from Civil War battlefields to synagogues and black-owned organic farms. He finds sharing meals has the power to bring the kin of former enslaved and slaveholders to the table where they discover the real America together. Book sales and signings following the program. Sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences. #BCReads18