Soul food

In 1997’s film "Soul Food," I was excited to see a movie that didn't represent an American family by typical ruins. "Soul Food" is a triumph because it never loses sight of the importance of family, even as its family members transgress and quarrel. The storyline focuses on the lasting influence of the family matriarch (played wonderfully by Irma P. Hall), Big Mama. Her kindhearted and wise soul holds the family together. When she dies due to complications of diabetes, her daughters must overcome their disparities to maintain the family. Though, Soul Food showed a long-lasting sibling rivalry, and the resentment of the eldest sister, Teri (Vanessa Williams) sister who thought she was superior to the two younger sisters, Bird (Nia Long), and,…

often combined with other greens). Though soul food originated in the South, they are in every African-American community in the nation, especially in cities with large black populations, such as Chicago, New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. Over the centuries, Soul food are usually cooked and seasoned with pork products, and the fried dishes are usually cooked with hydrogenated vegetable oil ("shortening" or "Crisco"), which is a trans-fat. More modern…

Soul Food The head of the household, Mama Joe, felt as if she was obligated to hold her family together for decades by having a nice Sunday dinner every Sunday with her family. Unfortunately, diabetes brought her down and caused her to get hospitalized. After she could no longer run the household, the tradition of Sunday dinners discontinued. Strains between her daughters Maxine, Teri, and Bird started to ruin the relationship of the family all together. Conflict theory lectures the method in…

If there is one category of food that the Southern black chef should excel it would be Southern or soul. However, the gentrification of food is now commonplace and ‘soul food’ is not exempt, “Collard greens were suddenly the “new kale,” according to a Whole Foods marketing ploy last year. Sweet potatoes, once an economical source of rich nutrients, have made their way into cupcakes, pancakes, and even quesadillas. A bevy of food bloggers has “discovered” sweet potato pie” (Taylor, 2015). The…

Food for the soul, or as writer for the New York Times Nicholas Kristof would argue, food without a soul. In the Opinions section, Kristof details his experiences with rural farming and provides a few facts about the counterpart to rural farming: industrial agriculture. This article’s main focus is to provide information about farming, with a bias towards rural farming, as Kristof comes from that background. His article accomplishes this goal with heartfelt stories, a knowledgeable friend, and…

Soul Food is based on an African American family who learns how to love and work together as a family after the tragic death of the mother of the family, Momma Joe. Momma Joe is the matriarch of the family who express the importance of family through Sunday dinners which she held over week for forty years. The story is narrated by her grandson, Ahmad, who loves his grandmother dearly. Momma Joe has three, Teri, Maxine, and Bird, who each have a issue in which they are struggling with. Teri is a…

The movie Soul Food unfolds the story about how important family truly is. As the story is being narrated by one of the children, Ahmad, he is able to paint a picture showing how the family is held together by Mother Joe. Regardless of how people in the family were feeling towards one another, come Sunday dinner, those feeling were put aside because being together as a family was more important than any individual feuds that were going on. Once the family loses Mother Joe, we begin to see the…

Food is simply what people put into their stomach when they feel hungry. However, African Americans who lived under slavery often times couldn't even accomplish the basic task of acquiring food as easily as we do today. Now I am here taking African American Studies class and learning about all the difficulties African Americans had to go through over the years. When we were discussing the conditions of African American families and how they survived under these circumstances through subsistence…

An American Tragedy “Soul Food is death food, it will kill you”. This bold statement was uttered by civil rights advocate, Dick Gregory in the PBS film, Soul Food Junkies”. Today’s African-Americans are marching, in step, to a slow death. Taken from their homeland and inducted into slavery, in Africa about 80 per cent of the diet was organic and consisted mainly of fruits and vegetables with little meat, mostly roasted. The African-American diet which was healthy and nutritious has been…

the actions you take, family will always forgive and protect you. In the movies, In America, The Family Stone, and Soul Food, we view three very different families dealing with different issues. However, regardless of what the families had to deal with during the movies, they always came together in the end. Each family was different in unique ways, and they were faced with different obstacles throughout…