soul food
traditional African American cooking, originally developed by enslaved Black people in the rural South and including such foods as chitterlings, pig’s feet, collard greens, and cornbread: The cuisine of New Orleans is heavily influenced by Creole and Cajun cooking as well as soul food.Soul food is grounded in the ways African Americans have always fashioned a way out of no way, taking scraps and creating a food tradition that has stood the test of time.
the traditional cooking of a specified culture: Kimchi, the magical soul food of Korea, is popular worldwide.We talked with the restaurant’s founders about Ashkenazi soul food and the misunderstood gefilte fish.
Origin of soul food
1Other words from soul food
- soul-food, adjective
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Minus the red drink, Lionel Chauvel-Maga has more or less based Gumbo Yaya on what Miller would include in his definition of soul food.
If soul food came to Paris, it was to eventually be françisée and get sent back.
The postwar Paris that Baldwin knew had a handful of soul food restaurants, places like Chez Inez, which Baldwin visited, and Gabby and Haynes.
It also happens to be a gold mine of soul food restaurants that are anything but corporate in character.
No personal photos or memorabilia cover the walls, as is true of the other worthy soul food places around town.
P&D soul food Kitchen: 927 S. Goldwyn Ave., Ste. 120, Orlando.
If you are planning to visit, we must warn you that P&D soul food Kitchen looks very boring.
Cory would come over several times a week to schmooze and cook ‘kosher soul food’ to which he and I invited many students.
Peter Beinart’s Bias Against Me, Cory Booker, and Israel | Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | June 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut we want it high—we love it high—we're restless—we're keyed up, taut-strung, and hungry for soul food.
Ptomaine Street | Carolyn WellsGet the best soul-food, the long tried manna that forms upon these pages day by day, for him who will be at pains to gather it.
The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible | R. Heber NewtonWhen it has none God sends poets to invent them as soul food for the nation's youth.
A Man's Value to Society | Newell Dwight HillisAfterward history stores up these noble achievements of yesterday as soul food for to day.
A Man's Value to Society | Newell Dwight HillisThe history that can be seen is a strong and stimulating soul-food, entirely different from vague and wearying written history.
British Dictionary definitions for soul food
informal food, such as chitterlings or yams, traditionally eaten by Black people in the southern US
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