Soul Week At-A-Glance

NBA great, Nate Thurmond has been running Big Nate's Barbeque for 17 years and loves it.

Port Chester in NY, got a Soul Food cookout of their own on Saturday. What a nice idea: a free family event, with healthy versions of soul food (although I did spot jerk chicken on the menu SMDH).

At the event, there was a milk taste test to convince kids that 1% and 2% were just as tasty as whole milk and better for you. 6-year-old Keshawn Ellis, declared his love for the new milk thusly: "It's like I'm going to marry it." Adorable.

Rosie's in the O.C. (of all places) get's it right with a menu of sweet tea, black-eyed peas, coleslaw, sweet potatoes, collards, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, Po Boy sandwiches and catfish! Besides soul food I also love to get my drink on and I'm hella intrigued by Rosie's black-eyed pea martini!

New Jersey's got soul.

Bill O'Reilly "treated" Al Sharpton to dinner at Sylvia's in Harlem where he claimed everyone in the joint watched his O'Reilly Factor show. He "had a great time, and all the people up there are tremendously respectful." Ugh.

He had the meatloaf and loved it and was surprised that "there wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.'
He exclaims further, "You know, I mean, everybody was -- it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all."
WOW!
He also talks of going to an Anita Baker concert where the Blacks where well dressed, like it's a new thing. Her band was in tuxedos and he claims that White America doesn't know that we can look and act respectfully. Download the audio here if the link wears out.

Looks like a White girl in Kentucky had Ethiopian food and had the same reaction as O'Reilly in that the food was actually good. At least I can give it to her that African food is probably few and far between in Kentucky and she seemed to really enjoy it. I don't know about the tone of the piece, there's just somethign about it that bugs me, but it's an interestign review nontheless.

Harlem looses a huge stretch of real-estate to ever more gentrification. Less soul food joint's to follow I'm sure.

Soul food as fast food for university students at SFU? Interesting!

2 Greeks run a well-loved soul food spot in Fayetteville for 50 years. Crazy!

Sounds like Silqui’s in Miami needs to step their game up, but they get props for bringin' soul food and Harlem-style entertainment to Miami.



Saveur Magazine dedicates their latest issue entirely to Chicago and includes the low down on soul food.

Patty Pinner, soul food baker, has new book.