Recipes from the American SouthA home cooks guide to one of Americas most diverse and delicious cuisines, from James Beard Award winning author and culinary historian Michael W. Twitty Our cuisine, with its grits and black eyed peas, crab cakes, red rice, and endless variations on the staple foods of the region, casts a spell that, if youre lucky, gets passed down with snapping string beans at the table and chewing cane on the back porch. Michael W. Twitty In the introduction to