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Soul Food

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Origin and record of soul food: Black American cuisine, African roots, the Southern line.
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Soul Food
Namedc. 1960s
RootsWest African · Southern · migration-city kitchens
AttributionBlack American origin · African roots · title on the record
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Soul food is the cuisine of Black America: West African technique and memory, adapted through slavery and the South, refined in the kitchens of the Great Migration cities, and named in the 1960s when the culture named everything it owned.[1]

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Soul food is American cuisine with African roots, authored in Black kitchens.[1] The archive files the lineage from West Africa through the South outward, and holds any history of Southern food that omits its authors as incomplete.

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2.See also

JuneteenthHistory & Migration
The Great MigrationHistory & Migration

3.References

[1]Miller, Adrian. Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time. UNC Press, 2013.
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Last revised June 24, 2026 by @foodwayskeeper · 1 revisionsConsensus · text under the Black’s Record License; sources remain with their authors.