Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food. Synopsis One person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family can be torn apart.
This is what the strong black kitchen looks like in the twenty-first century. Soul Food Love relates the authors' fascinating family history (which mirrors that of much of black America in the twentieth century), explores the often fraught relationship African-American women have had with food, and forges a powerful new way forward that honors their cultural and culinary heritage. Together they overhauled the way they cook and eat, translating recipes and traditions handed down by generations of black women into easy, affordable, and healthful-yet still indulgent-dishes, such as Peanut Chicken Stew, Red Bean and Brown Rice Creole Salad, Fiery Green Beans, and Sinless Sweet Potato Pie. She turned to her daughter, Caroline Randall Williams, for help.
In May 2012, bestselling author Alice Randall penned an op-ed in the New York Times titled 'Black Women and Fat,' chronicling her quest to be 'the last fat black woman' in her family. A mother-daughter duo reclaims and redefines soul food by mining the traditions of four generations of black women and creating 80 healthy recipes to help everyone live longer and stronger.
