When Turkey Wings and Pralines Stand in for Real Talk

When it comes to my parents, food provides our best lane of discourse

Michael Arceneaux
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6 min readFeb 12, 2020

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My parents have never asked me if I had a boyfriend. It’s just their luck that I never have one. Still, it would be nice if one day while sitting on newspaper, eating crawfish my dad boiled in the front of the house like the country Black man he is…

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Michael Arceneaux
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New York Times bestselling author of “I Can’t Date Jesus” and “I Don’t Want To Die Poor.”