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soul food
[ sohl food ]
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
noun
- informal.food, such as chitterlings or yams, traditionally eaten by Black people in the southern US
Other Words From
- soul-food adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of soul food1
Example Sentences
The soul food cafe — like many others — was completely destroyed by the Eaton fire.
Harlem Brew Soul Cookbook Beer and soul food collide in this unique cookbook from Celeste Beatty, founder of Harlem Brewing Company.
In college, I did a research project focusing on Black women in Harlem and their relationship to soul food.
Her husband, a chef from a more affluent background, is opening an upscale soul food restaurant in the midtown area.
Access to public lands is soul food for outdoor-minded city dwellers like me, not to mention the right of every American.
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