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Celebrate National Soul Food Month with Mama Dip - UNC Press Blog
I once worked at a restaurant that served fried chicken livers in a martini glass with some fancy sauce drizzled over the top in a perfect zig-zag pattern. Soul food sure isn’t what it used to be. This unique genre of food, always comforting and often greasy, should never be served in stemware. Soul food is about making the most with what you have, and it was with this mentality that many formally discarded--or at least overlooked--vegetables and meats became good eats. Though opossum, squirrel, and rabbit were once staples of this diet, today soul...
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