Soul FoodSoul Food(Poster)BUY NOW! FOR $2.98 Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food. When diabetes hospitalizes her, the dinners stop and tensions among her three daughters start to break the family apart. Two of the sisters feud continuously: Teri is jealous of Maxine's marriage and irritated that everyone assumes her corporate salary is open to the rest of the family's uses. Maxine resents Teri's bossiness and insensitivity to family tradition. Bird, the youngest, newly married to an ex-con, accepts a favor from an old lover that leads to her husband's arrest. Mama Joe's grandson Ahmad cooks up a scheme to bring the family together, back to the table. release year: 1997 star(s):Vivica A. Fox
Family's faith gives others body and soul foodHoward University The District Chronicles, DCHallue Wright believes in her southern, homemade-style ribs. So much so that she offers a free sample rib to new customers who stroll into her Manna From Heaven carryout restaurant in Rosecroft Shopping Center in Temple Hills,MD.
Cheap church dinners are soul food for tough timesConnecticut Post, CTBy Keila Torres As the recession drags on, more people are flocking to church -- not necessarily to nurture their souls, but to save money on inexpensive meals. In the last two years, attendance at community dinners hosted by area churches has been on
Vegan Soul Kitchen (Da Capo Press, $18.95, 2009) by Bryant TerrySun-Sentinel.com, FLRather, in his latest cookbook, Terry seeks to reclaim two foodways that he says are misunderstood: veganism and soul food. Praise (and quibbles): He starts by talking about the health benefits of his style of eating. As a practitioner of veganism,
Dining: County gets comfort food, straight from the soulBusiness Gazette, MDAnother interesting aspect of the restaurant is its commitment to making soul food as healthful as possible: there are no beef or pork items on the menu, Proctor said. And even the collard greens ($4) are cooked with smoked turkey wings instead of pork
Dressed up or down-home, it's a timeless favoriteMiamiHerald.com, FLPeedy Harris, co-owner of Mama Lee's Soul Food restaurants in San Antonio, bakes corn muffins for his customers. His version, a family recipe, is slightly sweet ''not too much, though,'' he emphasizes. There are times he regrets ever offering patrons a
Buddy Johnson used taxpayer money to pay activist Michelle PattyTampabay.com, FLPatty did this through "Soul Food Sunday,'' a group that black business owners started in 2007. Patty, Candy Lowe and Jarvis El-Amin are the weekly event's main promoters. They invite churchgoers to black-owned restaurants to promote them.
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