soul food

[ sohl food ]

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noun

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.

soul food

informal.
food, such as chitterlings or yams, traditionally eaten by Black people in the southern US

An Americanism dating back to 1960–65

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.

But we want it high—we love it high—we're restless—we're keyed up, taut-strung, and hungry for soul food.

Get 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.

When it has none God sends poets to invent them as soul food for the nation's youth.

Afterward history stores up these noble achievements of yesterday as soul food for to day.

The history that can be seen is a strong and stimulating soul-food, entirely different from vague and wearying written history.

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