Table of Contents:
  • The Atlantic slave trade and the Columbian exchange
  • Adding to my bread and greens : enslaved cookery in British colonial America
  • Hog and hominy : Southern foodways in the nineteenth century
  • The Great Migration : from the Black Belt to the Freedom Belt
  • The beans and greens of necessity : African Americans and the Great Depression
  • Eating Jim Crow : restaurants, barbecue stands, and bar and grills during segregation
  • The chitlin circuit : the origins and meanings of soul and soul food
  • The declining influence of soul food : the growth of Caribbean cuisine in urban areas
  • Food rebels : African American critics and opponents of soul food.