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  • Best Soul Food Dishes. What to eat in Southern United States?
    Soul food - a cuisine that fuses West Africa, Western Europe and the Americas - is no stranger to controversy. Though the label floated around black culture at least a decade earlier, "soul food" had its breakout moment in the 1960s when Black Power advocates declared their independence from the narrative forced upon African Americans by white hegemony. Food was included in that ambitious project. Soul food was presented to the world as a cuisine wholly distinct from southern food, even though they shared common ingredients, culinary techniques, and history. Today we're going to tell you about the most iconic soul food dishes.
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    00:00 | Soul Food Introduction
    00:48 | Cornbread
    01:20 | Collard Greens
    02:03 | Fried Green Tomatoes and Fried Okra
    02:51 | Banana Pudding and Peach Cobbler
    03:50 | Sweet Potato Pie
    04:30 | Mac and Cheese
    05:08 | Smothered Pork Chops
    05:41 | Red Beans and Rice and Hoppin' John
    06:45 | Fried Catfish and Shrimp and Grits
    07:44 | Fried Chicken
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    #soulfood #soulfooddishes #southernfood #southerndishes #americancuisine #americandishes #usa #americanfood #foodinusa #americanstreetfood #cooking #food #recipes #top10

Komentáře • 117

  • @bestamericanfood
    @bestamericanfood  Před rokem +2

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  • @RevAlex-mb2do
    @RevAlex-mb2do Před rokem +18

    I am so hungry. I love when cornbread has pieces of corn in it, don't forget the butter.

  • @CulinaryCentury
    @CulinaryCentury Před rokem +18

    I love Soulfood

  • @coxb29
    @coxb29 Před rokem +17

    Fried chicken, Mac and cheese, and collard greens makeup my perfect soul food plate hahaha! I gotta finish with a big slice of sweet potato pie 🥧 at the end 🤤

  • @dferrell3927
    @dferrell3927 Před 9 měsíci +6

    Fried Corn,Mustards&Turnips, Baked Macaroni,and Ribs we had for dinner!! I love our people food!!!!

  • @dolly24242
    @dolly24242 Před 11 měsíci +12

    "Collard Greens , Corn Bread , Fried Chicken , Fried Okra , Fried Green Tomatoes & Smothered Pork Chops were a regular part of our meals growing up !"

  • @JulieIelasi-lt7yp
    @JulieIelasi-lt7yp Před 7 měsíci +4

    No wander, Elvis loves his southern foods ! 😊

  • @louannchipman1749
    @louannchipman1749 Před 9 měsíci +6

    I love absolutely every food listed here.

  • @PurpleMeowKitty
    @PurpleMeowKitty Před rokem +10

    cornbread
    collard greens
    fried green tomatos
    fried okra
    banana pudding
    peach cobbler
    sweet potato pie
    mac & cheese
    smothered pork chops
    red beans & rice
    hoppin john
    fried catfish
    shrimp & grits
    fried chicken
    chicken & waffles

  • @AllAboutFoodFirst
    @AllAboutFoodFirst Před 10 měsíci +15

    It’s not just Mac and cheese it’s Baked Mac n Cheese

  • @russellhays2853
    @russellhays2853 Před 9 měsíci +4

    A funny story. Growing up I was raised by my mom who was full blood Cherokee. My dad was a Caucasian and lived out in Los Angeles California and was a truck driver. When I was 18 I went out to spend time with my dad and travel the countryside. One time we stopped in Salt Lake City and had a one night layover. We were parked nearby the agency and dad said lets walk down the block a little ways there's a nice cafeteria we can eat supper at. So we walked down to it and dad opened the door and stepped inside and then he hollered "oh sh!+" and turned around right fast and shoved me back out the door and said we don't want Soul Food. I looked at the wording on the door and seen the wording "Soul Food" on the door and then I noticed several black people sitting at tables inside. And I asked "What's soul food?" My dad replied "that's black people food".
    Well I had never heard the term soul food before and for years, probably a decade or more, I always wondered what soul food was. Then one day I was in this big buffet type of restaurant that had all kinds of food. There was American food over in this section, chinese food over in that section, Mexican in that section, Italian over here, and at the very end was a sign that said "SOUL FOOD".
    I thought finally I'm going to get to see what soul food is. So i walked over and my bottom jaw dropped down with disbelief. I looked it all over and I told myself "what! This is the same stuff my momma cooked while I was growing up". I couldn't believe it, my momma cooked soul food. Then I got to thinking "Is there something my momma never told me".

  • @hopeurdoingok2day979
    @hopeurdoingok2day979 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Red beans and rice, fried chicken, fried pickles, smothered pork chops, banana pudding, collard greens, Mac and cheese, fried catfiiisshh

  • @franjenkins5091
    @franjenkins5091 Před rokem +10

    That is just food that a lot of us, grew up on!

  • @hopeurdoingok2day979
    @hopeurdoingok2day979 Před 9 měsíci +2

    I miss Louisiana. I moved to North Dakota a few weeks ago, this list made me feel very nostalgic.

  • @vitsteele-lz2hn
    @vitsteele-lz2hn Před 9 měsíci +4

    Fried chicken potato salad greens chittlens Mac and cheese

  • @dharmon8798
    @dharmon8798 Před 10 měsíci +9

    Yes sir, all southern dishes. Great food

  • @CulinaryCentury
    @CulinaryCentury Před rokem +3

    Awesome Channel thanks for sharing

  • @josiahgamez5346
    @josiahgamez5346 Před rokem +8

    Mac and cheese has to be number 1 for me ngl

  • @JaniceEllis-bk6fn
    @JaniceEllis-bk6fn Před měsícem

    Oh, my fried green tomatoes, fried okra, greens, yum, yum, .

  • @marleneschultz9092
    @marleneschultz9092 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I’m from the south I can think about 20 more but you did good. But I love green bean and potatoes with neck bones or beef sausage.

  • @youtudey138
    @youtudey138 Před rokem +5

    Wow, I didn't know my grandma was southern or black. This is a revelation!

    • @sublimnl1
      @sublimnl1 Před 10 měsíci +4

      Yts wouldn't know souls or good food if it smacked you upside the head don't kill me 💀😂

    • @loganrobinson192
      @loganrobinson192 Před 8 měsíci

      That's because you ain't from the south. This is how every southern white grandma would cook . But y'all like to think we're all super different. This is all southern culture not black culture or white culture. We have similar values, beliefs, and cusine. Just too many dumb mfers around that think someone is inherently different because of their skin@@sublimnl1

    • @cressapellom4205
      @cressapellom4205 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Good for you and yo old ass grandma

  • @nickshively1192
    @nickshively1192 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Ribs, Mac n cheese, green beans cook with smoked turkey, hot water cornbread!

  • @michellemoorehead5508
    @michellemoorehead5508 Před 9 měsíci +4

    No bread 🍞 crumbs on Mac and cheese please

  • @atlnla4112
    @atlnla4112 Před 25 dny +1

    On New Years, Collard greens are for money, black eyed peas are for luck. Coins under the bowl not very common. If you’re wishing for luck you can’t waste a coin. People seem to think that grits are only served with shrimp. In southern households we have grits almost every morning for breakfast with eggs and some type of breakfast meat sausage, bacon, even fish. Shrimp and grit is something usually had in a restaurant or for a rare special occasion.

  • @sheryljones856
    @sheryljones856 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Love it all.

  • @derekw.9878
    @derekw.9878 Před rokem +7

    Sugar or honey cornbread is cake. Stop the madness. Further pumpkin pie and stuffing has never been southern, we do cornbread dressing.

  • @clarascott5264
    @clarascott5264 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Ain’t it good luv it 😊👍🏼🥬SOULFood

  • @gwensmith6
    @gwensmith6 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I'm cooking some now. Smothered steak, candied sweets,cornbread,turnip greens,Mac and cheese. Its delicious.

  • @StratBurst92
    @StratBurst92 Před rokem +3

    I love cornbread but being a diabetic I have to watch my carb count. However, there is a recipe where almond flour is used, and the taste is pretty close to traditional cornbread. But without the carbs.

  • @U.B.T.
    @U.B.T. Před 8 měsíci +1

    Ummmm! I'm looking so forward to Soul cooking on a regular specifically for my Soul-mate's health & enjoyment. Also, to teach him about the importance of healthy foods for good health throughout his entire life. 😁

  • @CulinaryCentury
    @CulinaryCentury Před rokem +2

    thanks for sharing

  • @sukaipenn9188
    @sukaipenn9188 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Yummy

  • @IisisShepheard-zc4rs
    @IisisShepheard-zc4rs Před 6 měsíci +2

    Alrite-now 😺

  • @vitsteele-lz2hn
    @vitsteele-lz2hn Před 9 měsíci

    Glad to see this

  • @amyfox9659
    @amyfox9659 Před rokem +5

    I grew up on Soul Food but mines from Hillbilly and some White Trash relatives living in the Ozarks of Missouri & Arkansas.

    • @just.dariana6280
      @just.dariana6280 Před 10 měsíci +1

      😂😂😂😂

    • @sublimnl1
      @sublimnl1 Před 10 měsíci

      👱🏻‍♂️s don't have souls so therefore whatever food your 👹 hillbilly family cooked for you WASN'T "SOUL" food. Thanks

    • @clarascott5264
      @clarascott5264 Před 9 měsíci +2

      God bless you and yours 🙏🏼🙏🏼

    • @1010QUEEN7
      @1010QUEEN7 Před 8 měsíci +1

      😂😂😂😂

  • @clarkkent5115
    @clarkkent5115 Před 24 dny +1

    Soul food is just southern food. I even asked my friend who is black about the difference between soul food and southern food and he couldn’t tell me.

  • @CulinaryCentury
    @CulinaryCentury Před rokem +49

    I love black people food

    • @RonaldWilliams-qh7zc
      @RonaldWilliams-qh7zc Před 9 měsíci +10

      Very sketchy comment

    • @atlantissurvivor1689
      @atlantissurvivor1689 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Yeah it’s called Southern cuisine but because black people cook it, it gets a different name. 🙄

    • @johnkimber2509
      @johnkimber2509 Před 3 měsíci

      Black people created these dishes and the whites copied & claimed it, typical of colonizers

    • @granda3649
      @granda3649 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@atlantissurvivor1689Cajun and Creole cooking are also Southern but they get they're own name too. 🤷‍♂️

    • @bigvalley4987
      @bigvalley4987 Před 2 měsíci +1

      The best fried okra that I enjoyed, was at Churches Chicken🥳

  • @RuthEsther-nn6qe
    @RuthEsther-nn6qe Před měsícem

    I just cooked my first pot of collard greens. I tell you it took me a minute to get them right with the seasonings and tenderness. I see they taste better on the 2nd or 3rd day too. Seems like I cooked them greens almost 3 hours to get them where I wanted them. At some point I over seasoned them. Had to pour the salty pot likka off and add some plain water to regulate the seasoning. Then they were just right. I will get them right the first time next time.

  • @karmacasteel9317
    @karmacasteel9317 Před 7 měsíci +1

    My mom never made banana pudding with whip cream everything from scratch

  • @angelenefrohmader6922
    @angelenefrohmader6922 Před rokem +3

    Mmmmmmmmgood

  • @TheTruth-ge2yt
    @TheTruth-ge2yt Před rokem +1

    Very nice video

  • @1010QUEEN7
    @1010QUEEN7 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Mustard Greens taste better than Collards in my opinion ❤❤❤

  • @jomaina4046
    @jomaina4046 Před 9 měsíci +2

    O lawd 😂

  • @PH-Cooking
    @PH-Cooking Před měsícem

    The bes video about food recipe

  • @ackialbertsen9836
    @ackialbertsen9836 Před rokem +3

    #5 ❤️

  • @kenfox22
    @kenfox22 Před rokem +3

    Fried 🐥 is king

  • @Only60GamesPlayed
    @Only60GamesPlayed Před měsícem

    I NEVER KNEW THAT WAS WHY WE ALWAYS HAD BLACK EYED PEAS ON NEW YEAR’S DAY! WHEN MY MOM AMD DAD WERE WE ALWAYS HAD HOG MAWS AND SHITLINGS AND BLACKEYED PEAS WITH REGULAR OR HOT WATER CORNBREAD!

  • @ham3feat.angelos1nuthalfki89

    These ai chat gpt CZcams videos are gonna usher in the apocalypse

  • @Michael-hw5wk
    @Michael-hw5wk Před 7 dny

    I'm not a fan of okra, but I do like fried green tomatoes

  • @WilliamThubron
    @WilliamThubron Před 2 měsíci

    I will send this to my friend to see if this is true👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @endlessdreamkitchen

    🧡🧡🧡🧡👍👍🥰🥰

  • @vaughnmiller4371
    @vaughnmiller4371 Před měsícem

    You blacks are the best. Not just your food but your entire culture, it's no wonder people around the world emulate you. 😎

  • @axehammer3850
    @axehammer3850 Před měsícem +1

    I didn't know that there is a difference between Southern Food and Soul Food.

    • @atlnla4112
      @atlnla4112 Před 25 dny +1

      Southern has more European influence, soul food has more African influence. Pumpkin pie = southern, sweet potato pie = soul. Sweeter cornbread, fry bread = southern, more mealy cornbread = soul. Baby back ribs, brisket = southern, slow cooked, pit smoked ribs = soul. And the dishes that overlap like fried chicken, it’s how you cook the dish and it’s in the seasoning.

    • @axehammer3850
      @axehammer3850 Před 24 dny

      ​@@atlnla4112Thank you.

  • @KingKen6
    @KingKen6 Před 3 měsíci +1

    How u forget sweet potato’s like bro

  • @johnhill9445
    @johnhill9445 Před rokem

    ASE 👑

  • @wendyp.1392
    @wendyp.1392 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Mmmmm.... Frie Chimkin 🐔 🍗
    Edit: I liked my own comment

  • @JaniceEllis-bk6fn
    @JaniceEllis-bk6fn Před měsícem

    Red .beans,rice, fried chicken.

  • @Huda_Fay
    @Huda_Fay Před 2 měsíci

    What is the difference between soul food and southern food?

  • @helenaaron5396
    @helenaaron5396 Před 2 měsíci

    Soul food is bad for you I’m sure but it’s my favorite food

  • @jamesstallworth2721
    @jamesstallworth2721 Před 3 měsíci

    The soul food was around during american slavery, long before the 1960's.

  • @KingKen6
    @KingKen6 Před 3 měsíci

    He forgot one bruh

  • @Queen_Amenarina
    @Queen_Amenarina Před 4 měsíci

    I Would Like to Believe the Commentator is Not Being Rude & Disrespectful On Purpose but it is Very Insensitive to say African Slaves, it is African Enslaved People or African Unpaid Workers;
    Also take note that Europeans & Asians have been enslaved to.
    👊🏽❤🖤💚

  • @hortondlfn1994
    @hortondlfn1994 Před rokem +4

    If you're going to make political statements regarding food, then don't "culturally appropriate" food that was part of an entire culture's experience and not just a segment of it. Several of your "most iconic soul food dishes" are just straight up Southern cooking.

    • @MrNikoncameraman
      @MrNikoncameraman Před rokem +1

      @hortondlfn1994 this is NOT a political statement--the Southern cooking you're speaking of was initially cooked by BLACK slaves. And over time, it was incorporated into the greater SOUTHERN cuisine, primarily because Southern Blacks cooked it. The food of the South was so well LIKED, Southern whites were taught to cook it !. Up until the 1980s, Southern Blacks cooked in MOST of the white restaurants in the South, as well as most middle-class and well-to-do Southern homes of the South.

    • @hortondlfn1994
      @hortondlfn1994 Před rokem +1

      @@MrNikoncameraman Nope. The greater percentage of Southerners did not own slaves - especially those who would cook for them. There were more than enough poverty-stricken whites who knew how to make do with what was available, such as corn meal, ground hominy, etc.

    • @MrNikoncameraman
      @MrNikoncameraman Před rokem +3

      @@hortondlfn1994 I DID NOT state that MOST white families had slaves--but I do KNOW that MOST Southern white restaurants, along with middle and elite white families HAD black cooks until the 80s !

    • @hortondlfn1994
      @hortondlfn1994 Před rokem +1

      @@MrNikoncameramanThe good restaurants still do!

    • @destinyforever
      @destinyforever Před 9 měsíci +1

      Foods created by enslaved Africans. I don’t know why others have a problem understanding & acknowledging that fact. Do your own research. Just because white southerners took on & copies dishes from others doesn’t make it theirs.

  • @kofibabone725
    @kofibabone725 Před 6 měsíci

    Fried green tomatoes?!?? Been black 44 years, that's a first for me.....and wtf is hopping john!?!??

  • @kearlm
    @kearlm Před rokem +2

    So fried chicken came from Ireland? GTFOH.

  • @BrianMcCann421
    @BrianMcCann421 Před dnem

    Another collection of video clips with an AI-generated voice-over, sorry everyone this is the way CZcams is going

  • @silas7985
    @silas7985 Před 2 měsíci

    Anyone noticed this is AI generated? 😅

  • @wintur2856
    @wintur2856 Před 3 měsíci +1

    African American Food**

  • @derrickcobb5360
    @derrickcobb5360 Před 10 měsíci

    Soul food is AMERICAN food 🤔.... all ingredients are indigenous to AMERICA 🤷🏿‍♂️

    • @destinyforever
      @destinyforever Před 9 měsíci +1

      Not true! Okra, cowpeas, watermelon, rice, peanuts, millet, Lima/kidney beans are just a few items brought over with enslaved Africans.

    • @Sol-Amar
      @Sol-Amar Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@destinyforever Good point. I agree! With the exception of peanuts, lima beans, and kidney beans though, since they are thought to have originated in the Americas thousands of years before 1492.

    • @namelssssnake9466
      @namelssssnake9466 Před 7 měsíci +1

      *black american*

    • @derrickcobb5360
      @derrickcobb5360 Před 7 měsíci

      @@namelssssnake9466 AMERICAN, no need for black 🙄..... because we are the only AMERICANS 😳.... everybody else in this country is a UNITED STATES citizen.

    • @namelssssnake9466
      @namelssssnake9466 Před 7 měsíci

      @@derrickcobb5360 there is absolutely a need, cause it aint your culture, how about giving credit where due, last time i checked white americans didnt invent anything of culture value, you can leave ours out, the southern aspect is only an umbrella so it doesn’t apply here either, cause not all southern food is soul food

  • @vergespierre4271
    @vergespierre4271 Před 25 dny

    Stop it. Africa nor Europe had anything to do with soul food(its strictly American) and sont you find it funny that soul food consist of many so called "native American " foods. We are the original American. Africa nor europe has any influences on us or cuisine. We influence them and the globe

  • @rodenrren2
    @rodenrren2 Před 7 měsíci

    Macaroni and cheese is Italian, fried chicken is Scottish

    • @kofibabone725
      @kofibabone725 Před 6 měsíci

      We make it better so step aside...

    • @rodenrren2
      @rodenrren2 Před 6 měsíci

      @@kofibabone725 1st off that’s irrelevant, the subject was if it was soul food or not, but now that you mention it Italian macaroni in Napoli Italy is hands down the best in the world, not even close, and personally chinese fried chicken is way better

  • @user-vh1rc9sd2c
    @user-vh1rc9sd2c Před rokem +3

    It irritates me when folks don't know what they're talking about. The ONLY thing on that list that is actually soul food is "hoppin' John". All the rest are basic Southern food. Real soul food is things like ox tails, chitterlings and okra and tomato stew. Fried chicken is NOT soul food. Macaroni and cheese is NOT soul food. Greens are NOT soul food. We ALL eat that down here. To be genuine soul food, it must be a dish that was INVENTED by Southern black folks. Only that is REAL soul food.

    • @m_2tb
      @m_2tb Před 11 měsíci +2

      honestly. Its strange how most soul food people mention is just normal southern food, except it's cooked by black people. the more distinct dishes should be considered first.

    • @user-vh1rc9sd2c
      @user-vh1rc9sd2c Před 11 měsíci +2

      Amen@@m_2tb

    • @sublimnl1
      @sublimnl1 Před 10 měsíci +1

      ​@@m_2tbblack people were the ones cooking ALL THE FOOD DURING SLAVERY YOU COMPLETE NUMBSKULLS these recipes are OURS. get over it.

    • @destinyforever
      @destinyforever Před 9 měsíci +6

      Then you don’t know the history of soul food which is as coped by white Southerners. I’d suggest you read Michael W. Twitty’s books. He’s a culinary historian that has researched Black American food contributions to the world. Most of soul food was brought up ver during slavery.

    • @1010QUEEN7
      @1010QUEEN7 Před 8 měsíci

      In the last few years I've noticed white shoppers in the grocery stores with pigs feet in their cart 😂😂😂