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Article: `Soul Food': Hard-to-Swallow Facts
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 23, 1988
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Some of the botanical, historical and culinary inexactitudes
expressed or implied in the article on cooked greens {Food, Jan. 6}
lead one to wonder whether the writer put any real research into the
article.
Those who write about the edibles that some call "soul food," in
nostalgic references to a southern upbringing, sometimes seem
particularly gullible in swallowing the questionable explanations
often given about its origins.
To state as fact that seeds and plants of, or recipes for,
cooked greens were brought to this country from Africa by slaves is
strongly to suggest that these hapless humans were fully aware that
they were being taken to colonize another part of the world and that ...