Seeking Soul Food resources

[Dante]

Hi!

I'm looking for good sources on Soul Food - style, methods, recipes.

Anyone got anything they can recommend to me?

Sincerely,

Dante

[Shalmanese]

While not exclusively soul food, Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking is a very good reference work on the American South.

[Tri2Cook]

To me, soul food is home-style comfort food. I know it's commonly attached to race now but I think It's beginnings stemmed more from income level. Styles, methods and recipes aren't just going to vary across regions, they're going to vary from house to house. It's what mom/grandma/great-grandma/etc. made and, usually, what they made taste good using the cheapest of ingredients or what they had on hand. It's a classification of food I think is in more danger of disappearing than any other with the prevalence of convenience foods taking the place of "making do". I hope I'm wrong because some of the best food out there was born of people doing what they can with what they have.

[SylviaLovegren]

Books by Edna Lewis and Sylvia of Sylvia's Kitchen are soul food classics. Carolyn Quick Tillery has two good books out as well, A Taste Of Freedom A Cookbook With Recipes And Remembrances From The Hampton Institute and The African-American Heritage Cookbook.

[HungryC]

John Egerton's Southern Food

[Tri2Cook]

Apologies... but it's too late to edit my original post. I somehow completely missed that this was in the "cookbooks and references" forum and thus didn't realize that my rambling thoughts on the subject were irrelevant to the topic at hand.

[JagsChef]

The Lee Brothers are a good place to get material. They do a good job explaining the background behind it as well as killer recipes. http://mattleeandtedlee.com/lee-bros/our-first-cookbook/