soul food

Food, such as ham hocks and collard greens, traditionally eaten by southern African Americans.

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soul food

(Cookery) informal food, such as chitterlings or yams, traditionally eaten by Black people in the southern US

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soul′ food`

traditional black American cuisine, orig. of the rural South.

[1960–65, Amer.]

soul′-food`, adj.

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soul food - food traditionally eaten by African-Americans in the South

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