Anthropology of Food

Soul Food / Comfort Food

see also

Culinary Appropriation / Culinary Colonialism

In the News

 

Tim Roufs and Alan Caldwell, Pitmaster
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Bryan, TX

see also
Slow Food
Booya
Wild Rice

 Soul Food Junkies film viewing guide

  The Meaning of Food film viewing guide

Wikipedia:

Soul Food
Local food
Ark of Taste (heritage foods)

In the News . . .

• Why not all comfort food is the same -- BBCFuture (06 January 2023)
  
  
• Carter, Christopher. The Spirit of Soul Food:Race, Faith, and Food Justice. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2021.
  
  
• How rice shaped the American South --Michael W Twitty, BBCtravel (08 March 2021)
  
  
• Filmmaker Byron Hurt Talks 'Soul Food Junkies,' How Food Relates Family & Identity -- ESSENCE (28 October 2020)
  
  
• Food History: Soul Food (17:38) -- Mental Floss (22 April 2020)
  
  
• Roufs, Timothy G. 2018. "Hot Dish." From We Eat What?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Unusual Foods in the United States, by Jonathan Deutsch, (Ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 171-176.
  

The Campbell Girls’ Tater Tot Hot Dish. Photo by Gretchen Roufs Woodfield.

• Appetites: What makes good comfort food? -- MPRNews (06 December 2017)
  
  
• Why The Story Of Southern Food Is As Much About People As Dishes -- MPRNews (11 June 2017)
  
  
• Reshaping soul food's identity -- Duluth News Tribune (22 February 2017)
  
  
• Reclaiming native ground: Can Louisiana’s tribes restore their traditional diets as waters rise? -- Barry Yeoman, Food and Environment Reporting Network, Gravy, and The Lens (09 February 2017
  
  ["How do climate change, coastal restoration policy, indigenous foodways, community organizing, folk wisdom, seafood, food gardens, and tribal recognition all come together in one disturbing story? Read this article by Barry Yeoman, which uses a holistic perspective to examine how native people in south Louisiana are trying to save their communities and foodways as the Gulf of Mexico rises and destroys their land. Yeoman may not be an anthropologist, but this article would really be useful in any number of anthropology classes. Read it. -- Food Anthropology]
  
  
• Minnesota millennial tries to save the traditional church lutefisk dinner -- StarTribune (12 November 2016)
  
  
• Hey Arkansas: Eat my queso! -- San Antonio Express-News (03 November 2016)
  
  
• Kittley, bitter balls and potato greens: African customers find taste of home in farmers markets -- MPRNews (20 October 2016)
  
  
• This Historian Wants You To Know The Real Story Of Southern Food -- Michael Twitty, NPRTheSalt (01 October 2016)
  
  
• Red Lake Nation holds first indigenous food summit -- MPRNews (19 September 2016)
  
  
• Surprising Global Origins for Regional Food Favourites -- BBC News (08 June 2016)
  
  
• Tater Tot Hotdish, Minnesota Soul Food -- Lorie Ostlund, What It Means to Be American (29 February 2016)
  
  
• Finding Minnesota: The Taste Of Lutefisk -- CBS Minnesota (20 December 2015)
  
  
• The season of lutefisk -- MPR News (10 December 2015)
  
  
• Michael Twitty on culinary justice - video -- Michael W Twitty, Guardian (27 October 2014)
  
  
• In Honor of National Soul Food Month: The Roots of Soul -- Michael W Twitty, Afroculinaria (02 June 2014)
  
  
• Slaves Hid Charms in Colonial Greenhouse -- Discovery News (14 February 2011)
  
  

• Afroculinaria -- Michael W. Twitty
  
  
• Beriss, David and David Sutton (Eds.). The Restaurants Book: Ethnographies of Where We Eat. Oxford: Berg, 2007.
  
  
• Bilger, Burkhard. Noodling For Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, And Other Southern Comforts. Scribner, 2000.
  
  
• Erdrich, Heid E. Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2013.
  
  
• Hess, Karen. The Carolina Rice Kitchen: The African Connection. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998 [1992].
  
  
• Stoney, Mrs. Samuel G. (Compiler). Carolina Rice Cook Book. Charleston, SC, 1901. In Hess, Karen. The Carolina Rice Kitchen: The African Connection. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998 [1992].
  
  
• Twitty, Michael W. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. NY: HarperCollins, 2017.