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Name: MrsPhoenix

Comment: Why is it no one talks on the true origins of soul food...that it originated from the limited food sources forced upon on slave ancestors by their slave owners, that is has little nutritional value, and further, that it is the source of our common physical ailments? Why won't someone go run and tell THAT?

Name: McNasty

Comment: We're not slaves and soul food can for damnshure be cooked in a healthy way with all the nutrition necessary to keep a person from having to take supplements! It's an art to eat healthy while remaining true to soul food simply because it does have several dishes that have no value but fat.

Name: MOTHERSHIP

Comment: I co-sign, McNasty. It also sustained us for over 400 years. Hell, too much orange juice will kill ya. The acidity level disturbs the stomach lining as well the lining of the esophogus.

Name: MzTee

Comment: Damn skippy...soul food deserves to finally receive the recognition it deserves. Great article, JCP! Makes me want to go out and make a big pot of collards, mac and cheese, hot water cornbread, yams, and fried chicken. And then suffer from black-i-tis...a serious drain of energy followed by a long and restful nap (LMAO).

Name: MrsPhoenix

Comment: The healthiest cooking of soul food only slighly decreases its negative effects; we as Blacks need to give it up ENTIRELY.

Name: McNasty

Comment: No MrsPhoenix you need to give it up. I cooked collards (with smoked turkey), candy yams (like I don't know what!!) and meatloaf (make you hurt a nucca) for dinner one day last week but if I ate like that everyday it would be unhealthy and I would be fat. Black folk need to learn balance and moderation and leave giving up shat to white folks. While there are more obese folk now than ever before I believe it speaks to the number of tv stations on cable and directv than the food itself. Exercise is the key and moderation is the engine that drives it.

Name: MrsPhoenix

Comment: Sorry, McNasty, but not everything under the sun is good for us. And not everything that is culturally historic is healthy for us either. As always, I respect your opinion, as well as those of others.

Name: Priceless

Comment: turkey will never replace pork for me ... LOL! but he is right a lot of soul food can be prepared in healthy ways

Name: McNasty

Comment: MrsPhoenix I too respect your opinion but don't understand why you think soul food encompasses everything, most of which you think unhealthy. Soul food is less about the food and more about seasoning which is how a sistah 'puts her foot in it'. My soul food consists of vegetables high in vitamins (I wont take multi vitamins I choose to eat well balanced meals), replacing using pork as seasoning with turkey or beef or chicken stock or broth, margarine not butter. The only places you can't skimp and get away with that I can think of right now is potato salad, mac & cheese, baked sweet potatoes. We don't have any business trying to make a meal off any one of those anyway. When you start speaking culurally historic even I have to draw the line - I eat no internal organs, feet, ears, tails or snouts.

Name: ladybyrd

Comment: Slaves did the best that they could back then. Like everything else recipes change. I don't know about your family but we don't eat Rabbit, possum or anything like that. Our family recipes has evolved like everything else. Alot of the fatty parts of the meals are our own doing. For instance, I loved my Mother pies and her homemade mac & cheese. We used to call it Death by Macoroni & Cheese. It's sooooo good, made with butter, 3 cheese and it melts in your mouth. My mother would make sure that everyone would get a large spoonful, because she knew it was about 700 calories each spoon. LOL...

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