In the introduction to this groundbreaking recipe collection, acclaimed historian Michael W. Twitty declares, “No one state or area can give you the breadth of the Southern story or fully set the Southern table.” To answer this, Recipes from the American South journeys from the Louisiana Bayou to the Chesapeake Bay, showcasing more than 260 of the region’s most beloved dishes.

Discover both iconic dishes and lesser-known specialties from the author of this classic cookbook in the making. 

In conversation with artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, connecting culinary and visual storytelling with his new Skirball exhibition Draw Them In, Paint Them Out.

Michael W. Twitty is an acclaimed culinary historian and author of the two-times James Beard Award-winning book The Cooking Gene, as well as Rice and Koshersoul. He has written for many publications and been featured throughout print and broadcast media, including The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, PBS, and NPR's The Splendid Table.

Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, OK. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. For almost two decades, Trenton Doyle Hancock has been constructing his own fantastical narrative that continues to develop and inform his prolific artistic output. Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock’s work pulls from his own personal experience, the art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad other pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the grey in between. Hancock’s work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Menil Collection, Houston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; among others.