{"id":21849,"date":"2022-11-20T20:11:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T01:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=21849"},"modified":"2022-11-20T20:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T01:14:51","slug":"williams-speaks-with-michael-w-twitty-about-koshersoul-the-faith-and-food-journey-of-an-african-american-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/williams-speaks-with-michael-w-twitty-about-koshersoul-the-faith-and-food-journey-of-an-african-american-jew\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams speaks with Michael W. Twitty about &#8216;Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s Judith Williams, an anthropology professor, serves as a virtual host for the Miami Book Fair sponsored by Florida Humanities. Williams, who calls Miami her hometown, moderates a session with Michael W. Twitty, author of &#8220;Kosheroul: The Faith Journey of an African American Jew.&#8221; Twitty, an award-winning culinary and cultural historian, discusses his book about &#8220;the crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine \u2013 and issues of memory, identity, and food.&#8221; He explores not just who makes the food, but how the food makes the people.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is a sociocultural anthropologist whose ethnographies of restaurant workers examine the construct of racial hierarchies within the country\u2019s restaurant industry. A former chef and caterer, Williams says her &#8220;experience working in the upper echelons of the culinary industry infuses her work with an experiential dimension of understanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 46-minute session, which took place live on Friday, Nov. 18, is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamibookfaironline.com\/event\/michael-w-twitty-on-koshersoul-the-faith-and-food-journey-of-an-african-american-jew-nonfiction\/\">Miami Book Fair Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Anthropology Judith Williams moderates a conversation with award-winning culinary and cultural historian Michael W. Twitty for the Miami Book Fair Online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":21850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,6,1694],"tags":[1692,1691,1693,109],"class_list":["post-21849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-in-the-news","category-miami-book-fair-online","tag-food","tag-identity","tag-judaism","tag-memory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}