What is Soul And Soul Food?

The following is a prerecorded interview I did on The Splendid Table From America Public Media

This week it's soul food, or what some think of as the culinary calling card of African Americans. It's an odd juxtaposition that out of great poverty and struggle came some of America's best eating. Our guest is history professor Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America .

Listen Now: http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/listings/090411/

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