Culture Quote by Sarah Ban Breathnach

“All soul food is southern food, but not all southern food is soul food.”

— Cassandra Harrell

“In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes.”

— Robert St. John

“Today's American food culture is a contested landscape in search of values, new direction, and its own indigenous sense of rightness and self-worth. It's…

— Michael W. Twitty

A lot of people don't know, but I love soul food. I love fried chicken and pork chops, all of that.

— Naturi Naughton

The food we call soul food is slave food. We were forced to eat it.

— Eric Adams

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from…

— Rick Bayless

If there was ever a food that had politics behind it, it is soul food. Soul food became a symbol of the black power…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle, extreme hunger,…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Americans are experiencing a general hunger for authentic regional cuisine, of which Southern food represents one of the best and oldest examples.

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

“The travels to discovery my heritage revealed to me that the South might not be a place so much as it is a series…

— Michael W. Twitty

“Music and books, food for the soul!”

— José Luis Braga

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every…

— Matthew Fox