Does Soul Food Need a Warning Label? | Adrian Miller | Talks at Google

Discover the the journey of this cuisine from West Africa to the American West by showing what people of West African heritage ate before European contact, during The Middle Passage, during slavery in the American South, after Emancipation, and while migrating and settling in other parts of the United States with an emphasis on the time period of the Harlem Renaissance.
Moderated by Lesley Pace.
Get Adrian's book Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time here: goo.gle/2TlVmzd.
His book The President's Kitchen Cabinet can be found here: goo.gle/3cpdnEt.

[@BBGrillShack]

Yo Adrian is a legend! I'm a new fan but his insight is genius and content is thorough and thoughtful. I can't recommend a full watch more.

[@Gmoneyluv4u]

This guy is like a food historian@@!!

[@stupidtreehugger]

Very interesting. Yams: 1920s farmers bred darker, sweeter sweet potatoes. West African cooking didn't use much dairy, that came in from Europe, via to knobs, then the rich, then the ordinary people. Hush Puppies are little balls of corn, not a brand of shoes. And, as typical, no mention that extremely cruel and ultimately utterly pointless slavery was endemic in Africa from way before any European knew Africa existed. And that the semitic i.e. Arab tribes took millions of African slaves and worked almost all of them to death. I wonder how soul food is doing in the Middle-East.

[@jonb903]

Please tell me that you have added "seedless GMO" fast food garbage (chicken that tastes you are eating a sponge) and water that needs to be filtered before drinking.

[@Knowledgeseeker567]

Ok I'm curious..What is the origins of Cornmeal Dumplings being eaten with collard greens.

[@elaineminter7920]

Intellectual Rebirth black people started that we eat corn meal dumplings with mustard and turnip greens

[@Knowledgeseeker567]

elaine minter Is it of African origin

[@trex1448]

I love Soul Food. My metabolism doesn't.