Cornbread & Collard Greens: How West African Cuisine & Slavery Influenced Soul Food

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Soul Food Volume 1: The Basics

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Pamela M Holmes cooking first gained national notoriety on YouTube where her channel, The Joy of Soul Food receives hundreds of thousands of views and rave reviews from subscribers. Ms Holmes cooked her first Thanksgiving dinner at the age of 9. Born 10th of 11 children to parents from the heart of Mississippi, Ms. Holmes credits her mother and father for her expertise in the kitchen. "They were both phenomenal cooks." If I have captured the essence of the food they put on the table for us, I consider my work a success. Ms. Holmes, a devout foodie, leans toward healthy choices in her soul food cooking "because, after all the longer you live, the more you get to eat!

the colored green tree

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This novelette is an allegory about youthful collard greens that "sag" to the chagrin of their elders and distributors, both of whom set out to find a solution to this appalling tendency.

Each group, elders and distributors, in their own way contribute to the amelioration of this sagging syndrome, which the young greens had acquired via lateral gene transfer from their human consumers.
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Greg’s Little Soul Food Cookbook

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For me, soul food is good if it’s prepared the proper way. And for others, having a soul food meal might bring comfort as they revisit the past in their memories. Like momma’s macaroni and cheese, grandma’s fried chicken and auntie’s collard greens. Those foods bring it all back and for some folks, it’s a good feeling if it’s done in a positive manner and especially if they’re doing the cooking

It’s unfortunate, but a lot of the good southern soul food cooks didn’t pass down their secret recipes to the next generation. If you didn’t hang out in the kitchen, you may have missed out on some im-portant things. But all is not lost. I wrote this small cookbook for those who love soul food and want to cook it. I kept this book very simple and didn’t put a lot of complicated recipes in here. Most of the recipes in this book are from my Sumtin’ Bout Dat Soulfood Cook-book, But I added more recipes like chitterlings, pig’s feets, black-eyed peas and some other dishes. I wanted to focus on certain foods that someone might see on a real southern African-American’s table from time to time.