Soul Food, Good to Eat or Good to Discriminate

Abstract

Well, every ethnicity has its own bite. We believe food could show who we are and shape what we become. And our protagonist, soul food, it is another name of African American cuisine, as “soul” began to refer as African American culture in the 1960s.

When it comes to soul food, we may point out the dishes with pig's feet, collard greens, black-eyed peas, and hominy grits without hesitation, and these ingredients just like a symbol which represents all of the African American cuisine, conveyed with the slavery history that commonly held belief in the 1960s and 1970s, as it became entangled in a complex political struggle over the legitimacy of a menu dictated by poverty and exclusion.