Soul food

Example of soul food.

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Soul food is a group of ethnic foods traditionally made and eaten by African Americans, coming from the Southern United States.

Soul Food Media

• SoulFoodMeal.jpg

  A plate of soul food consisting of fried chicken, collard greens, macaroni and cheese, and cornbread

• Cooking at stove in old Trepagnier Plantation House, Norco, Louisiana, October 1938.jpg

  Cooking at stove in old Trepagnier Plantation House, Norco, Louisiana, October 1938

• Sea Island red peas.jpg

  Sea Island red peas, a variety of cowpea in West Africa, were brought to the sea islands of South Carolina by way of the transatlantic slave trade.

• Sommer Set Plantation Slave Kitchen.jpg

  Somerset Plantation slave kitchen

• Numididae Numida meleagris 1.jpg

  Enslaved people in the American South cooked the African guinea fowl and paired it with rice, a combination common in the foodways of sub-Saharan Africa.

• FISHERMEN FIND BASS, FLOUNDER, SHAD AND ROCK FISH IN CHESAPEAKE BAY - NARA - 548499.jpg

  FISHERMEN FIND BASS, FLOUNDER, SHAD AND ROCK FISH IN CHESAPEAKE BAY - NARA - 548499

• A young African American at the Chesapeake Bay cleaning crab shells

• Slave food garden - slave cabin at pioneer farm - Mount Vernon.jpg

  A slave food garden at Mount Vernon. To supplement their diet, enslaved people grew their own food to make stews.

• ASC Leiden - Coutinho Collection - C 26 - Life in Sara, Guinea-Bissau - Girls cooking - 1974.tiff

  Cooking techniques in West Africa continued in North America with enslaved Africans and their descendants.

• Baked macaroni and cheese close-up.jpg

  Macaroni and cheese, a European dish that became a staple in Southern cuisine, was popularized in the United States by enslaved cook James Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's personal chef.

Related pages

• Cuisine of the Southern United States