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This is a list of soul foods and dishes.Soul food is the ethnic cuisine of African Americans that originated in the Southern United States during the era of slavery. [1] It uses a variety of ingredients and cooking styles, some of which came from West African and Central African cuisine brought over by enslaved Africans while others originated in Europe.
Soul food recipes have pre-slavery influences, as West African and European foodways were adapted to the environment of the region. [3] [34] Soul food originated in the home cooking of the rural Southern United States or the "Deep South" during the time of slavery, using locally gathered or raised foods and other inexpensive ingredients.
Slaves were generally well-fed with native African plant foods, most notably peanut and sesame, to keep them alive on the long sea voyage to North America. [17] Some plants of African origin were said to be grown at the homes of Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, possibly with know-how from enslaved Africans. [17] [18]
West African cuisine encompasses a diverse range of foods that are split between its 16 countries. In West Africa, many families grow and raise their own food, and within each there is a division of labor. Indigenous foods consist of a number of plant species and animals, and are important to those whose lifestyle depends on farming and hunting.
The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to bring it to light.
The use of ground corn in cooking originated with Native Americans, who first cultivated the crop. Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole cooking introduced one of its main staples into Southern cuisine: corn, either ground into meal or limed with an alkaline salt to make hominy, in a Native American technology known as nixtamalization. [1]
China's Xinjiang region is using agricultural industrialization to dismantle traditional communities and exploit Uyghur farmers, resulting in tainted products entering global supply chains and ...
Jambalaya (/ ˌ dʒ æ m b ə ˈ l aɪ ə / JAM-bə-LY-ə, / ˌ dʒ ʌ m-/ JUM-) is a savory rice dish that developed in the U.S. state of Louisiana fusing together African, Spanish, and French influences, consisting mainly of meat and/or seafood, [1] and vegetables mixed with rice and spices.