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Michael Twitty is about to embark on what he calls the “ Southern Discomfort Tour ” — a journey to follow his ancestors’ “foodsteps” through the American South. This self-described writer, culinary historian, and Jewish educator from the Washington, D.C., area will be traveling with a small group for two months by car, from Maryland to Louisiana and back, covering almost 4,500 miles. In addition to tracing his personal history, Twitty will be speaking, giving cooking demonstrations, and volunteering on farms and for food justice organizations over the course of the trip. He plans, as he puts it, to “make sure that organic, local and sustainable food in Southern communities — particularly that produced by farmers of color — is highlighted and supported.” He also plans to document the journey on his blog, The Cooking Gene . Twitty’s roots go back through the segregated South to slavery in Virginia, and he also hopes to engage communities in conversation about the region’s fraugh...

I’ve told the story about how I started my first online business hundreds of times before – in conversation, in interviews and more recently, live on stage – but today I plan on getting into more detail than I ever have before. Why? Because the brevity of those conversations often blur the truth about how much time and effort was actually put into my business before I ever made a single penny. My first monthly income report from October of 2008 reports $7,906.55 in earnings, however this was definitely not the first month my business was running – this was the first month I had monetized it with my own product - a year and a half after I started. Let’s start from the beginning so we can see what really happened. I was working as a senior drafter in a Bay Area architecture firm – loving what I was doing and looking for ways to expand my resume, possibly get promoted and earn a raise. At this time, I was earning about $38,000/year. I really wanted to ...