Southern and Healthy Soul Food Archives:

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Enjoy Healthy Southern and Soulful Recipes, Traditions from Chefs, Old & New Cookbooks, Family Reunions

June 2010

First Lady, Michelle Obama gives props to grandmothers during message to top chefs. See 3rd paragraph in Washington Post story

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Culinary Travel: Egypt

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May 2010

College Lesson Mastered: "Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."

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Atlanta Post Surveys Black America Cooks and Chefs,,,projects

4 % of US restaurants owned by African Americans ("...go to a lot of restaurants now in the South... I don’t care who the owner is and who’s out front, but if you look in the back, there’s Black folks back in the kitchen," Chef Joe Randall, above)

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April 2010

To get Derby Day Menu Planners on Track:Bon Appetit Blog offers 5 Great Recipes with Kentucky Bourbon Ingredient

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No "R" in June. Click to View FDA Raw Oyster myths

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Harlem plans for Chef Marcus Samuelsson include Red Rooster Restaurant

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Link to Black America Cooks Samuelsson interview "Creating Reunion and Family Cookbooks…"

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Florida Inmates Harvest

Collards and Tomatoes

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Some call the USDA "The Last Plantation" while Black Farmers wait to harvest results from blatant discrimination as recent as 1994.

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March 2010

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To Everything There is a Season: Click for 'Chilling Spring Cleaning Tips from yumsugar.com

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Tips for Homemade

Sausage include asking butcher to grind meat...

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Lest We Forget:

Mary Pegue Pullins

Chicago, IL

July 3, 1901-May 21, 2010

"Born Mary Magdelene Sykes in Monroe County, Miss... her father's grandfather was sold to the Sykes Plantation, where the family got its name..."

Sun-Times Obituary

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Lena Horne

New York
June 30, 1917-May 9, 2010

A BAC friend, who worked as her personal assistant during the 1950s, described the beautiful singer and Civil Rights icon as a soul food fan... "I picked up chitlins and fried chicken in many cities," she said.

NYT Obituary

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Dr. Dorothy Height

Washington D.C.

March 24, 1912-April 20, 2010

"A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted."

"If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done."

NCNW Tribute

WP Obituary

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