‘Koshersoul’ highlights the long-lasting links between African and Jewish cuisines. Michael Twitty calls this his Eat Pray Love moment. In the James Beard-award winning author’s first culinary memoir, The Cooking Gene, Twitty made a table setting for his enslaved ancestors and their descendants who, despite shaping and driving Southern American cuisine, never received due recognition for their contributions. Now, Koshersoul serves as the food scholar’s follow-up, intended to be the second in an eventual trilogy, where Twitty sets a place for himself as a gay Black Jewish man of Southern heritage, inviting readers along as he highlights the culinary intersections...