Soul Food: 10 Facts You Didn't Know! | Americulinariska

When you live abroad, you often think about your heritage in new ways. Thus I've been doing a lot of research on "Soul Food" and found some interesting stuff. I figured I'd share it in a fun video!

Produced by: Kendra Valentine

Photo/Edit: Claes Helander

Music by: Brenden Wesley

Resources:
Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America, by Frederick Douglass Opie @DrFredDOpie
Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, by Adrian Miller @SoulFoodScholar

(Also, go to the blog post and click on those links in the text! Good articles and websites!)

[nijinokanata]

Never knew that about the leftover greens' sauce. Thanks!

[SheraePerkins]

I definitely love this video thank you so much. I will defiantly be using this in a presentation for my students. I didn't know that about the juice from the greens either great wealth of information

[mac]

I always thought it was called "potliquor"? Very informative. Thank you for sharing.

[tammiable]

Love this video! You’re so cute the way you presented everything! God bless, I’m subscribing!

[savannaharisugawa]

You could probably make a good soup out of the left over liquid from the greens!!

[mfrenchcazenovia]

This was a fantastic video. Thank you!

[daphnerodriguez]

THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟❤️🖤💚🤎 FAMILY DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜, SOUL FOOD YUMMY 😋,

[askagriot]

While I agree with the vast majority of what you were saying, I would like to add that in fact, W Africans weren’t vegetarian. They were historically pescatarian. Seafood was a predominant ingredient in cuisine eg
🥘Thieboudienne🥘😋

[tonigonzalez]

It existed, there wasn’t a name for it. Or we didn’t name it.

[williamcoady]

Not n my family my father Cook as well as my mom...it was eight ten all together....I remember going to the butcher my parents go on the weekend it was fun . The butcher slice different cheeses n cold lunch mear

[acajudi]

Thank you for these excellent videos. Sharing is caring.







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beef stew, catfish, can red salmon for croquettes. potatoes, flour, rice, instant potatoes and milk, Cheerios. butter, etc. Bruce can sweet potatoes, Sauerkraut, olives, figs, nuts, corn meal, Folgers Instant Coffee.






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[josephel]

Very interesting. I like what you said about the diet of the West African, that it was essentially a vegetarian diet.

[SAPHYTYRA]

Little known fact: All of soul food is indigenous American food. The food and the cooking techniques. There is an indigenous species of rice in American called river rice or Indian rice. That is the kind of rice we eat. The ancestor to the okra plant abalmoschus manihot is ingenous to America and it is my theory that like us genetically modifying teosinte to produce corn, we genetically modified abelmoschus to get okra. All of the food items on your plant is indigenous to the Americas. Fact check me.

[tammiewhite]

Where I'm from it's not soul food it's dinner

[michaelreed]

Hello. Did you mention that soul food has some Native American ingredients?

[drewhendley]

Soul food is another name for
slave food