Soul Food In African American Culture

Soul food brings the sensation of love and pride that has been perfected over decades of African American Culture. It first emerged around 1619 when the first enslaved Africans arrive to Jamestown, Virginia. There, Soul food was able to provide enslaved Africans an identity and a sense of belonging among all the challenges and hardship that they had to endure. One of the many obstacles that slaves have to face is obtaining the right amount of nourishment for survival because often times slave masters control every aspect of an slave's diet. Thus, providing slaves with very little options of food sources such as corn and bacon, which is given out at the corncrib and smoke-house…. each one receives, as his weekly allowance, three and a half
Infact there were many new dishes incorporated into Soul Food, representing how each region in America take on this cuisine such as the way Louisiana and Mississippi cooking style of Soul Food is branch off to a similar cuisine known as Creole and Cajun which is where the famous dish gumbo is from. While Soulfood is gaining more recognition throughout time, it is also gaining the negative health reputation. Soulfood is believed to be apart of the serious health issue epidemic in the United States which causes many Americans to stay away from this cuisine.Although soul food has a negative health connotation, it has a huge significant impact on African Americans by providing a culture in America that has new traditions but at the same time a continuous connection to their ancestral roots.

Soul Food has an influences on new traditions that provides African Americans a sense of cultural pride in America. Thanksgiving is one of the most crucial national holidays in the United States. What many do not know is how much Soulfood had influence the dishes, modern Thanksgiving includes. Although the concept of Thanksgiving emerged from the Native