Well there's just something
about soul food, you talk
about right cornbread and
greens Mac and cheese amongst
few special recipes become so
food, you buy extension
nutrition and wellness
educator Caitlin melon or 5
Caitlin how are you. Doing
well, thanks for having me
well it's a black History
Month and the show very
appropriate time to be talking
about soul food. I like it.
But I know very little about
So can you give let's go back
to sort of the early early
days what is soul food what
qualifies it as being such.
part of African history and
particularly in the Americas
we have slaves coming into the
Americas and they're bringing
in their and the foods that
they're used to it there with
their own experiences. And
that is just evolved over the
decades and centuries to be
what is modern day soul Food
and what I really love is that
yes it has kind of a negative
reputation terms of health so
things like Mac and cheese
fried chicken but there's a
lot of different vegetables
fruits beans, then make up a
lot of soul food recipes which
had really good nutrients to
soul Food and it is very much
a celebration since I think
that's very true of a lot of
cultural foods we eat them.
During times of celebration
during you know big events in
life and food is absolutely
one of those too. And so we
see a lot of those fruits like
peas we see things like sweet
potatoes we see things like
collard greens mustard greens.
Watermelon is one of those
fruits Ted would then you know
domesticated over over the
years and it's such a great
way to promote black history
and let's talk about soul
food, it's not just for.
Celebration is we can't get
time.
So there is a way to get
both the great taste and do it
in a somewhat healthy manner
as well so you have several
recipes for us that you want
to share I believe one of my
favorites jumble is is on that
list.
recipe to share a friend of in
fried chicken recipe and a
side dish which includes okra
and tomatoes and the jumble
line is such a great example
of how coping, lots of
vegetables into your dishes
and we also hear why with. So
food we sure the terms of
Cajun and Creole and those are
also styles of cooking that
would fall under soul Food and
so the lie is a great example
of that's we usually have
sausage as well as chicken in
general, I A and then we're
adding in other vegetables.
That celery Bell peppers
jalapeno to add in some nice
flavors and some nice places
whether you're going to serve
it was are cornbread it's
going to be a really tasty
dish to try and. Funny enough
so the black eyed peas that I
mentioned earlier I did not
play pen or time this in any
way so this is just a nice
cool instance, I'm going to be
making have happened John for
dinner tonight which is
sausage and black eyed peas
with collard wow and so this
was kind of just a unique like
it was already and Sunday when
I was planning of them. I want
today to talk about so just
kind of something I just love
that little secret a city that
here.
Tell me about Oprah I don't
think I've ever had it, but it
feels like everybody raves
about it. And I need to try
and so when I do what should I
expect what does it taste like
what is it reminiscent of.
So probably a lot of people
familiar fried aggressive
that's a very popular way to
prepare. But you can also see
the dish that we're going to
share with continue those.
It's a.
Smallish screen pod it's
got some seeds inside it's got
a fairly mild taste in my
opinion. So it's going to
benefit from all the different
spaces and had to flavor it.
That can be is if you don't
cook it very soon after
cutting in to maybe like
Clayton shapes. Those seeds do
start to get kind I think a
lot of people crows slamming
us so one way to combat that
is just to make sure that
you're going to cook it up as
soon as she can.
Got it will we will put all
of these recipes and links to
them on our website and
Caitlin we appreciate the
history lesson and the cooking
lesson, thanks so much. Thanks
for having me absolutely all
those details look at the