Definition of soul food
: food (such as chitterlings, ham hocks, and collard greens) traditionally eaten by southern black Americans
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Living up north, soul food and southern food were commonly considered to be one and the same.
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BlackMetroEats, creators of Metro Detroit Black Restaurant Week, held its first PUT YA MAMA WHERE YA MOUTH IS! cooking competition in December, and the emphasis for that outing was on soul food.
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And the prices being asked and paid have prompted the few pangs of hesitation in people such as Wilson, the soul food restaurant co-owner, who is black.
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This year’s social media messages range from religious to not-so-much (looking at you, Miley Cyrus getting spanked by the Easter Bunny), and even include requests for brunch recommendations (Kevin Hart is looking for some good soul food).
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Billy Kyles, a local minister, is there to lead King and his entourage back to his house for a soul food feast.
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There is a soul food catering company, a winery based in a garage, a chocolate company, a coffee roastery, and two breweries around the corner from Circa of America, the largest belt and leather goods manufacturing plant in the United States.
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The smell of Southern soul food drifted from the kitchen.
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Fernay McPherson’s Minni Bell’s Soul Movement, the roving pop-up and catering business specializing in Southern and soul food, opens today in a new, semi-permanent location inside the Emeryville Public Market.
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First Known Use of soul food
1964
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Definition of soul food for English Language Learners
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: the type of food traditionally eaten by African-Americans in the southern U.S.
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