Mom’s House specializes in sharing soul food with the Bakersfield community, and by cooking this traditional food, it highlights the history and culture carried in the black community following the transatlantic slave trade.
- Video shows soul food cooked at Mom’s House
- Co-owner Dirk Johnson’s family recipes span generations, and he says he wanted his customers to feel like family when they eat a meal at Mom’s House.
Sitting down for a meal at Moms House means more than just a full stomach for the black community.
It carries history and culture, and for some local customers it takes them back home.
“Hi, how are you doing today?” Mercadiez Moore, a server at Mom’s House, asked a local customer.
If you’re looking for a history lesson, you can find it in an unsuspecting place at Mom’s House.
“Extra lemon? I got you,” Moore said.
In the fried chicken, waffles, and collard greens lie the recipes of co-owner Dirk Johnson’s family.
“That’s where it all started from is right there,” Johnson said, showing 23ABC a photo of his mom on the restaurant’s wall, but his mom’s recipes span generations even before.