| Mar 23, 2007 @ 11:45 AM |
What Is Soul Food ???
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Blondino
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What is soul food? 
Is it soulfully cooked food or richly flavored foods good for your ever-loving soul ?
I have never had soul food but I found the following :
But soul food is much more than a clever name. It is a legacy clearly steeped in tradition; a way of life that has been handed down from generation to generation, from one black family to another, by word of mouth and sleight of hand. It is rich in history and variety of flavor.
When you taste good soul food, it takes hold of your soul and hangs your unsuspecting innards out to dry. It's that down home, stick-to-your-ribs kind of food that keeps you glued to your seat long after the meal is over with. A soul food meal makes you sit back, relax and savor the gentle purrs of a well-satisfied stomach, feeling that all is right with the world.
Say you fry up a batch of fresh chicken to a golden-brown crispness, but you keep the insides so moist, so tender, that all the juice just bursts forth with the first bite. Next, you cook a big pot of turnip greens seasoned with fatback, onion, vinegar, red hot peppers and salt. Fresh-shucked corn fried with butter and bacon. Maybe some candied yams with marshmallows dripping in syrup so you can dip the hot water cornbread. Then you top it all off with a giant glass of sweet Kool-Aid if you truly have soul; if not, then iced tea. Can't you taste it? It makes you want to "slap yourself."
To cook soul food you must use all of your senses. You cook by instinct, but you also use smell, taste, touch, sight and particularly sound. You learn to hear by the crackling sound when it's time to turn over the fried chicken, to smell when a pan of biscuits is just about to finish baking, and to feel when a pastry is just right to the touch. You taste, rather than measure, the seasonings you treasure.
These skills are hard to teach quickly. They must be felt, lovingly, and come straight from the heart and soul.
So what is soul food? It is your passion for what you love being expressed through food, and that is in us all.
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 11:48 AM |
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lj450
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It used to be called "soul brother food" but they dropped the offensive part.
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 11:50 AM |
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uab_5
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Collards, cornbread, barbeque, and pecan pie
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 11:51 AM |
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lj450
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Head cheese, greens, chicken necks and pigs feet.
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 11:54 AM |
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Blondino
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I feel I am missing out ...
so this is a southern thing ??? what are collards ? Head cheese ? Greens ???
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 11:58 AM |
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lj450
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Hog Jowls and cone bread.
There were more slaves in the south......so, yes......I would think it is more of a southern thing.
collards are collard greens.......greens are collard greens.
head cheese.......well......Im not so sure you are ready for that one yet.
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 12:00 PM |
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Blondino
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a collard is ... what ? a type of cabbage
Soul food is passion served on a plate
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 12:04 PM |
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Heaveninawildflower
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Blondino...maybe head cheese would be more familiar as brawn? 
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 12:13 PM |
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lj450
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They even specify it as "Hogs Head" cheese here.
Passion on a plate? That sounds like some line from a cheesy romance novel. Soul food is black, home-cooking........using many recipes and techniques handed down from the slave days.
I guess you can be passionate about anything.
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 12:24 PM |
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Blondino
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brawn .... never heard of it 
well sounds good ... I want to try it sometime 
LJ you are being charming these days ....  nice
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 12:40 PM |
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lj450
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awwww thanks
Wanna get naked now?
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 1:04 PM |
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LibidinistLady
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Collards, slow cooked Brisket w/ at least 1/2" smoke ring, cornbread & butter, beans, lemon pie, homemade ice cream... okay that's enough I'm hungry!
Blondino: collards are similar to turnip greens just not as bitter or strong tasting. then there are mustard greens.
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 1:34 PM |
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sweet5red
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http://www.foxhome.com/soulfood/htmls/soulfood.html
i was raised on alot of that just considered also southern cookin.. including the neckbones and cabbage which i do cook on occasion... sweet N Louisiana
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 1:40 PM |
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Blondino
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I heard food from Lousianna is really spicy Red .....
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 1:43 PM |
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Always_Striving
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"Hogs Head" cheese
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I thought that it is church communion bread and wine
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 2:10 PM |
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Luisa909
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smoked salmon with butter and warm rusk....
very good in Xmas period ....
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 2:12 PM |
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spongebob777
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I don't know if it's soul food but I love Cajun food.
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 2:13 PM |
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lj450
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hahah.....she said period.
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 2:19 PM |
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Heaveninawildflower
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Yep, people do that periodically...
~sigh~ I love all kinds of food, dammit. Never met an ethnicity I didn't like...
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| Mar 23, 2007 @ 2:23 PM |
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lj450
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Well, I remember back in the period of my high school years.......we used to have lunch after 3rd period, I wish it had been after 4th period though cuz the afternoons are too long like that.....anyway......lots of times we had cafeteria soul food. Period.
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