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Soul food can be a divisive term. How is soul food different than Southern food? Does soul food refer to rib-sticking food like fried chicken and ribs, or more everyday fare like red beans and rice? Soul food pioneers like Princess Pamela point the way towards an answer. Join Justin Dodd, Chris Scott, and Dr. Jessica B. Harris as they explore the history of soul food.
Special thanks to –
Chef Chris Scott
Dr. Jessica B. Harris
The Institute of Culinary Education
& The Museum of Food and Drink
And make sure to real the full article about Pamela Strobel from Mayukh Sen here:
Food History is a new series from Mental Floss where we dive deep into the culinary stories that lead to the food on our plates. If you have an idea for a dish, cooking technique, or cuisine that you’d like us to explore in a future episode, tell us in the comments.
For the origins of mashed potatoes, check out our earlier episode of Food History:
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Soul food can be a divisive term. How is soul food different than Southern food? Does soul food refer to rib-sticking food like fried chicken and ribs, or more everyday fare like red beans and rice? Soul food pioneers like Princess Pamela point the way towards an answer. Join Justin Dodd, Chris Scott, and Dr. Jessica B. Harris as they explore the history of soul food.
Special thanks to –
Chef Chris Scott
Dr. Jessica B. Harris
The Institute of Culinary Education
& The Museum of Food and Drink
And make sure to real the full article about Pamela Strobel from Mayukh Sen here:
Food History is a new series from Mental Floss where we dive deep into the culinary stories that lead to the food on our plates. If you have an idea for a dish, cooking technique, or cuisine that you’d like us to explore in a future episode, tell us in the comments.
For the origins of mashed potatoes, check out our earlier episode of Food History:
Website:
Twitter:
Facebook:
20 Comments
I’m no bleeding heart. I don’t put black squares on IG. But that was powerful and insightful. That chef from ICE brought me to tears when I heard his reverence for soul food and what it means to him.
I now can understand why some black peoples refuse to eat fried chicken in public. The unkind and hateful cultures have embarrassed him into forgetting his history and his specific generational strife.
That unawareness leads to low brow ridicule and unintended cruelty.
I won’t censor others or myself. But if I do engage in cheap jokes and snickers, I’ll be sure to follow up with an even more forceful commentary on our “jokes” possible unintended consequences. As low vibration as it is to not give it any more thought to our silly words, I’ll always follow up with a push for a higher understanding of the meaning of “soul food”.
The beauty of it when it’s contextualized is to tell the story of human struggle and perseverance.
Thank you
Fantastic… I have to find that book. New Subscriber
I truly didn’t know how watching this video how spiritual and touched I got . 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🧘🏿♀️🧘🏿♀️🧘🏿♀️
No lies told about sweet potatoes and yams . Lol lol
I didn’t know until high school it’s white colored yams
Rush hour brought me here
We used to have a wonderful Soul Food place near my home, it was run by two of the sweetest lil old black ladies I loved them.
The first time I went in there I was the only white person in the room and I got the stink eye until Miss Susan said “ya’ll leave that white boy alone, at least he knows where to get good food ‘stead of that garbage from Mac Donalds.”
Lets see. Cornbread, biscuits, mac and cheese and yeah even okra. I've tried it didn't like it much until a friend had me try it fried.
He looks like canelo alvarez mexican boxer
Learning about history through dishes… Now I’m hungry
Food of the poor in the south. Not just African American, my grandparents were share croppers and worked the fields right next to each other, ate together, and often fished and hunted together.
Technically just the food of all southern born people in the United States who lived in poverty or close to it. My parents
grand parents
White girl here. Not a fan of sweet potatoes, but I LOVE okra! And collards cooked with ham hocks, corn bread, black-eyed peas and fried fish. There is so much in the culinary world to explore! And it's all right here.
It's a shame this video doesn't have more views.
Don't know if you guys still read comments of this vid, but there's a misused image at 5:31. You'r referring to possibly Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata) or yellow Guinea yam (Dioscorea cayenensis), yet put an image of taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott.), which are essentially two different things of different origins.
Fun Fact: Japanese cuisine refer to okra's "slime" as neba neba. Japanese people think neba neba foods like okra, natto, and yamaimo, are very healthy, and the slimy texture is a sign of the foods nutritional value. Okra was introduced to Japan by Americans in the early 1800s.
If SOUL FOOD is Southern Food, my home town of Springfield Missouri is MUCH MORE soulful than NYC. Just saying!
something else i'm misremembering: "Get A Load of This" (song title), someone and His Cheap Suit Serenaders (artist), and "…Get a load-a RC Cola…TV dinner…" (lyrics)
Hi Justin, could you possibly look at Food in the Caribbean, particularly, the way African ways of cooking, was mixed with whatever the Slave holders handed out. i.e Oxtail, Tripe, and the spices which had to be blended etc
ocro…..that fucking shit is GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSS yo. im not even kidding. nasty shit.
Oh my gosh it tastes so wonderful!
That's why there's a 'soul food' restaurant
every few blocks! Load of BS Woke.