Jamaican Soul Food

[Seveen]

Re: Jamaican Soul Food


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Never heard of Jamaican soul food. Is where you hear dat?

For people who don't know the U.S. South, &quot;soul food&quot; is generally thought of as traditional cuisine of American blacks in the South. For people who know and live in the South, black and whites, there's no differentiation. It's just Southern food. Period. </div></div>

leave us african americans some culture

when i was growing up in new jersey - soul food was thought of as traditional food such as collard greens, black eyes pea, fried chicken, macroni and cheese and more

when i moved to georgia - soul food was more of a southern thing - i remember attending a holiday party and eating some great sweet potato pudding - looked around to see which black person may have made it - it wasn't made by a black person - and plenty of white owned restaurants serve &quot;southern cooking&quot;

because black people were doing the cooking for so long in the south - soul food morphed into southern food

now everyone doesn't make it the quite the same - but the jest of what is eaten is the same

[Seveen]

Re: Jamaican Soul Food

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jaded</div><div class="ubbcode-body">white southern food and black southern food different,man

but I agree they don't classify southern black cuisine as soul food in the south..I guess that was your point

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i have never heard of a chicken and waffles restaurant owned by a white person - southern or not

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Jamaican Soul Food

'Cold supper' joint food like dried fried snapper,sprats, fried fritters, and johnnycakes,and callaloo.

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Since southern soul food is a representation of the food blacks could expect from the blacks only cook shops.

that was available to them during the days of overt segregation in hotels and restaurants<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Killa_Tilla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">such a ting?
If so what would it be </div></div>

[Peasie]

Re: Jamaican Soul Food

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Seveen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">when i was growing up in new jersey - soul food was thought of as traditional food such as collard greens, black eyes pea, fried chicken, macroni and cheese and more</div></div>
Yes, this is plain Jane southern food. Black southern food, or slave food, involved foods that the white ruling class did not want to consume themselves. In some ways, that is the similarity with Jamaican cuisine or slavery-based cuisine.

On the American plantation, the African was again forced to eat a &quot;new plate.&quot; Their previously healthy African plate was quickly replaced with an unhealthy African-American dish. The slave's diet consisted of the Master's (and his family's) throw away foods. The vegetables were the tops of turnips, beets, and dandelions. Eventually, new types of greens (e.g. collards, mustards) were being cooked by the slaves. Now, the meat (pig's feet, ham hocks, chitterlings, pig's ears, hog jowl, tripe, and crackling,) became the main dish. If they were lucky, they would be given generous portions of greens and molasses (as dessert). The common drink included lemonade or iced tea. Source

[Seveen]

Re: Jamaican Soul Food

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Seveen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">when i was growing up in new jersey - soul food was thought of as traditional food such as collard greens, black eyes pea, fried chicken, macroni and cheese and more</div></div>
Yes, this is plain Jane southern food. Black southern food, or slave food, involved foods that the white ruling class did not want to consume themselves. In some ways, that is the similarity with Jamaican cuisine or slavery-based cuisine.

On the American plantation, the African was again forced to eat a &quot;new plate.&quot; Their previously healthy African plate was quickly replaced with an unhealthy African-American dish. The slave's diet consisted of the Master's (and his family's) throw away foods. The vegetables were the tops of turnips, beets, and dandelions. Eventually, new types of greens (e.g. collards, mustards) were being cooked by the slaves. Now, the meat (pig's feet, ham hocks, chitterlings, pig's ears, hog jowl, tripe, and crackling,) became the main dish. If they were lucky, they would be given generous portions of greens and molasses (as dessert). The common drink included lemonade or iced tea. Source </div></div>

this is very simplified and not totally true

check out - poke salad, dandelion, dandelion wine, these are poor ingredients not used in “soul food” but by other poor immigrants that came to the states

pig feet, ham hocks, pig tails, chitterling (chitlins) are eaten by the Germans, the Chinese and other nationalities.

soul food is more the traditional way of cooking food – what items go together and what seasonings go in the food – not the food

I used to tell my mom “there’s no new meat in Jamaica” that is true about the foods of the world – it’s all about whether certain food are indigenous to the area and how they are used in cooking

the main cooks in the pre-civil war south were black – so in fact southern white people were eating “soul food” maybe better cuts of some meat – but I bet there wasn’t too much Yorkshire pudding being served

and rice – the gullahs and geechees perfected it – but again most of the world’s people rely on rice as part of their daily meals and to think of rice as primarily “soul food” is not accurate. Now think of red beans and rice and you do get soul food

[ackeepod]

Re: Jamaican Soul Food

Ital Food is SOUL FOOD to me ...

[Peasie]

Re: Jamaican Soul Food

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: haki</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Ital Food is SOUL FOOD to me ... </div></div>now dis is true!