Events

Hutchins Lecture “Michael Twitty in Conversation with Marcie Cohen Ferris”

Wednesday, April 19 | 6:00-7:30 PM

Stone Center Auditorium, UNC Chapel Hill

All are welcome to Michael Twitty in conversation with moderator Marcie C. Ferris, speaking about his much anticipated publication, Kosher Soul: The Food and Faith Journey of an American Jew (HarperCollins, 2022). Michael Twitty, the 2018 recipient of two James Beard awards for his book The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, will discuss his new publication, Kosher Soul: The Food and Faith Journey of an American Jew (HarperCollins, 2022), recently awarded Jewish Book of the Year by the National Jewish Book Awards. Joining Twitty in this conversation will be Marcie Cohen Ferris, professor emerita in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, interim director of the Center for the Study of the American South, and author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South and The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region and Edible North Carolina: A Journey across a State of Flavor. Be part of the conversation! Join us in person at the Sonya Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, or attend virtually. Visit south.unc.edu for details. 

Sponsored by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, Department of American Studies, Carolina K-12, and NCHillel.