For generations, collard greens have formed an important part of African and African-diaspora diets around the world. The leafy vegetable is a quintessential part of African American, Southern and ...

Balkanizing food like fried chicken and gumbo as simply soul food ignores the fact that African-American food is not only the matrix of Southern food, the most distinctive of all American regional ...

I’ve been planning the road map [for this trip] for 25 out of my 35 years — learning about genealogy, African American history, and slavery. I really wanted to feel that I was not an armchair ...

Asante, a self-taught chef who picked up cooking tips via family members and the Food Network, began blending the West African flavours she grew up with plant-based ingredients and techniques.

The African American food culture of Harris County and its history are shared by many places in the Deep South. Slavery had a deep impact on food access for blacks, and many of the foods slaves ate ...

The rice’s legacy in the U.S. was erased, like so many other contributions that the millions of enslaved African Americans made to southern history, culture and, of course, cuisine.

In chef and culinary historian Michael Twitty's new book, ancestry -- both his own and that of Southern food -- is a central theme. With "The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African-American ...

NEW YORK — Michael Twitty won the James Beard Foundation’s 2018 Book of the Year award for his book on African-American Southern food. The James Beard Foundation announced last week that ...

Southern Diet Blamed for High Blood Pressure among African-Americans. Published Oct 05, 2018 at 10:02 AM EDT Updated Oct 05, ... and scientists believe Southern food may partly explain why.

- My name is Toyin Alli, and I brought chicken and beef sausage gumbo, which blends my heritage, Nigerian and Southern roots. My dad is Nigerian, my mom is African American.

“Soul food came from the kitchens of the African American South,” he said. They cooked with humble ingredients such as greens, which were a product of social, economic and cultural situations ...