Baton Rouge Soul Food Festival: The details are out and there’s a contest involving cornbread

Two days of music, vendors and a contest to see who can down the most mustard greens and cornbread?

Must be the ninth annual Baton Rouge Soul Food Festival, taking place from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 23-24, at the Main Library at Goodwood, 7711 Goodwood Blvd.

The free, family-friendly event features blues, soul, R&B, jazz, gospel and Christian music. It also has a vendors’ village, judged soul food cooking contest and the aforementioned eating competition…

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