New York Times writer calls out Black people for lovin Red Lobster and she ain't lyin'! it all stems from the definition of "soul food" and a mild argument is if we go by patronage then Red Lobster would have to be it and I'd actually have to agree. There's a Red Lobster 3 blocks away from my home and it's allways rammed with Black faces. as a proud Nova Scotian I'd NEVER go ther (barring my old as shit grandparents didn't force me or somethin') but it is a popular spot.
1300Filmore in San Fran has a lock down on the upscale soul food fusion that eludes Harlem restaurant. Ironically, chef David Lawrence is actually Jamaican.
I LOVE fried anything so the thoughts of a fried peach pie that takes 3 days to make at A Taste of Memphis, a new resto in Boise Idaho, makes my mouth water. 3 days though? Really?
October shall hence be known as Alabama Food Products Month.
I'd say "yum-o" but I HATE Rachael Ray. It does sound good though ;-)
Soul Food recipes from the dirty dirty? Loves it! Here's a young entrepenour writing and self publishing a soul food cookbook. Cool beans! I really dig that you can download it for a cheaper price and print it off yourself. If you're anythig like me you like a spineless cookbook anyway and an environmentally efficient option is seriously cool.
I don't quite know how I feel about B. Smith (the Black Martha Stewart) endorsing a General Mills soul food endeavour. One part of me says "high-five sista!" and the other says, "damn you sold out sista". But then everyone derves a little soul and the fact remains that Black folks need to be eating a much healthier version of our cuisine so if this helps then so be it. Betty Crocker's sweet potato pie smoothies sound gross though! Check out their website Servin up soul.
Aiken, South Carolina, has a new soul food resto called the Soul Food Shack.
While I can agree that Bill O'Reilly's comments last week about how civilized Black people were at Sylvia's resto were ignorant, I'm still sure it was also racist. Ignorance + racism are a deadly combination and rarely are they separate from each other. On this basis Ben Greeman's latest article is naive and IMO wrong. Funnily enough he sites Juan Williams as one of the Black commentators who is defending O'Reilly, failing to note that he is also the other voice on the infamous audio proclaimin "oh please--" to O'Reilly's shit. Poor Ben actually thinks O'reilly can be belived when he claims to be on a new no-smear campaign when he himself is the biggest smear bandit.
Sweet Georgia Brown's gets a management makeover in Detroit. Nice to see some resto's are staying put and changig up the formula instead of packin' it all in like others...
...Like Diddy's Justin's closing. He claims it will reopen bigger and better but good business ususally means securing bigger and beter space to facilitate a seamless move instead of closing and starting from scratch.
