The Cooking Gene

Great for fans of the not-straight-forward elements of geneology, great for fans of food origin stories, great for fans of southern food.

I read a lot of non-fiction on Very Interesting Topics that find me powering through dry writing because KNOWLEDGE!, and that's what I expected from this - I was totally wrong. The writing straddles conversational and evocative, and the narrative weaves effortlessly back and forth between personal and historical. Beautifully written, emotional and informative.