honeydijonay: Soul Week At-A-Glance

In an effort to make me more accountable to this blog I've decided to keep tabs on the soul food blogosphere and report back so when I finally get a reader they can't say I never shared ;-)
The criteria I'm using besides soul food will be that the subject or blogger must be Black. There are thousands of food blogs and food blog/news round-ups for every color under the sun except us, so now it's our time to shine.

Sunday in Soul:

·Soul Food the Showtime series has recently released their second season and of course their first season was the shit.

·And oddly enough the movie that started it all is dead cheap right now - even in Canada. I've always felt there's a conspiracy to keep Black movies and music expensive so this is a joy. As an aside they also have Eve's Bayou for $6!

·Apparently I've slept on the fact that June is National Soul Food Month in the States. Duly noted for next Summer.

·And Memphis has a Soul Week!

·In NYC they have an organization called NoshWalks that takes groups to different neighborhoods for a stroll and some eats. I'm not in NYC so I wouldn'a been able to go anyway but according to Harlem's Uptown flavor website they posted the deets on Friday for an event on Saturday. Booooo. CP time fo' real.

·Grubgirl visited the Hard Knox Cafe not too long ago, servin' soul food in San Francisco and gave it a decent review.

·Off the Broiler did Pachal's in Atlanta and it looks mighty good.

·Ike and Tina's former back-up singer, Robbie Montgomery, does good in St. Louis making up soul food for the masses with 2 restaurants. Recipe included!

·Vegetarian soul food anyone?

·Looks like New York's gentrification of Harlem isn't an exclusive phenom. Dallas's soul food legacy, Vern's Place, is being forced out too. Thanx to CB9M Chairman's Blog for the unencumbered NYTimes article.

·Philly Restaurant gets big time kudos in a Black Enterprise Magazine as Best Soul Food!

·The latest article to bring attention to the unhealthy aspects of soul food. This time from Oregon. Don't get it twisted tho' it's mostly the use of lard, cream sauces, copious amounts of cheese and butter - I'll steer you healthy and right on this blog...most of the time ;-P

·I'll put it on here even though it was a while ago and I'm not that impressed: Justin Timberlake opened a new resto in his Southern tradition, imaginatively named Southern Hospitality BBQ

Cooking from a Black Persepective

I've been hemming an hawing about if and how I wanted to do a food blog for quite some time now and I've finally decided to give it a shot when I realized how truly interested I've become in gastronomical pursuits. Everybody loves food but when you start asking for mandolin's at Christmas, a ricer, or even a melon baller, one can assume that you're a bit more serious than some, about your relationship with it. Me, I'm a cautious experimenter. I mean shit, I'm Black yo! LOL

Not to offend the bougie gourmands who are also of the Black persuasion but in my experience Black people have a different mind set about food. What is and isn't normally eaten would make most foodies roll their eyes at our ignorance. Some things are simple we like pork and most pork products. We are not in the habit of eating meat or fish raw or 'tartar'. We are wary of sushi. We love butter and lard and deep fried anything. We also like things saucy and spicier than most White people. This does not mean blow-the-roof-off-your-mouth hot. We like spice – not necessarily “hot”. Seasonings that are flavourful and sumptuous with zest and kick, not obscene unflavoured heat. Let's just say that I’m not a fan of Tabasco Sauce (unless it’s in a prairie fire) for that reason exactly. I don't do missions to see who can withstand the hottest scoville measurement; that's so not my style. I actually make my own hot sauce and I just might share it one of these days...if you're lucky ;-)

I want to state unequivocally that I hate the snob factor in food. You won't find that here. This blog is meant to be a smorgasbord of flavours and techniques, some of which I might be trying for the first time, which is kinda why I’m documenting it. figuring out what went right and what went so horribly wrong. I’ve also started it because there appears to be a serious lack of Black food bloggers out here. I know we can throw down in the kitchen and know we eat hearty so why don’t we blog about it? You will find that a lot of my home cooking is in the soul food tradition but there will be a wide variety of cuisine on this blog - ultimately I like comfort food and home cooking.

This blog is purely for my pleasure. I want to experiment with a wide range of cooking styles and explore the gamut of culinary subjects, some that aren’t always politically correct but fuck it. This is my blog. Bring on the flava!

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