Soul Sister

Posted by: CC Bakes


A few Sundays ago I went to church, to the gospel choirs in Harlem. After a morning of song and preach in the back aisles, in our Sunday best, my NY wife and I, head to a little soul food canteen for lunch. Soul food to me is traditionally Southern American cuisine; fried chicken, black eyed beans, collard greens and corn bread. The origins, however, are traced back many years to Africa, including food such as rice sorghum and okra (one of my least favourite slimy vegetables). It also includes the starchy cousin from the sweet potato family, the yam. This has become a common inclusion to the southern American cuisine, and are often fried, and quite sweet, and can look almost a little like caramelised banana (which is also on the menu).

So once you’ve filled your polystyrene lunch box up with all sorts food for the soul, you get it weighed to pay by the pound, and take it upstairs to the canteen tables that remind you of a fast food chain you wish you didn’t know the interior of. But, despite the lacklustre appearance of the location, the food is certainly made with all good honest fried American soul you can fit into your stomach, and usually it’s too much, because, if you are like me, your eyes are bigger than your belly and your soul is getting squashed by all the corn bread.

Another delicious taste of what comes every Tuesday from CC Bakes.
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