February 11, 2020

February 11, 2020

Culinary and cultural historian Michael W. Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, will present the 2020 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture. The talk will begin at 7PM, The Press Room—730 N Broadway, Knoxville, TN 37917)

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