Cuyahoga County, OH. February is acknowledged as Black History Month.
This month is about celebratory events, challenges, and triumphs of Black people – including the language spoken, the artistic craft, traditions, myths, and the foods they eat.
As we embark upon the month’s events, with numerous events consumed with political speeches, words of encouragement, movies, and music about what was and where we are today, no matter where you go, there will always be the presence of food, soul food to share in the remembrance and to nourish the body.
According to the Urban Dictionary, “Soul Food originated from the cuisine developed by the enslaved Africans, mainly from the American South. A dark period in the history of the United States it resulted in a cuisine fashioned from the meager ingredients available to enslaved people and sharecroppers.”
Soul food consists of collar greens, homemade cornbread, macaroni and cheese, candied yams, fried catfish, dressing, baked chicken, fried chicken, fried green tomatoes, fried okra, sweet potato pie, pecan pie, egg pie, and peach cobbler. Anyone serving soul food must have some of these delicacies on the menu.