Soul food traces its origins to the southern region of the United States and proudly stands as the signature cuisine of African-Americans. Traditional soul food cooking served as a means for enslaved Africans to preserve their culinary heritage and pass it on to future generations once they arrived in the US. A true cultural fusion, soul food bears the influence of American and European culinary practices. The expression "soul food" emerged in the mid-1960s, during a time when "soul" became a common word to celebrate African-American culture. At its heart, soul food embodies the essence of down-home cooking, lovingly handed down through countless generations, with its roots firmly planted in the rural South. This cherished culinary tradition includes an array of decadent fried dishes, such as chicken, pork chops, and steak, smothered in rich, creamy gravy. Abundant with wholesome vegetables like peas, beans, greens, and corn, soul food is a celebration of flavors and colors. To satisfy the sweet tooth, soulful desserts like apple pie, pudding, and cobbler make an appearance, adding the perfect finishing touch to any soul food feast. This cookbook is a treasury of both traditional and inspired soul food recipes. Each dish celebrates the deep cultural roots and enduring legacy of soul food. As you explore these soulful creations, you'll not only relish their tantalizing flavors but also pay homage to a culinary heritage that has enriched the tapestry of American cuisine. Enjoy the journey through these soulful recipes and embrace the spirit of soul food in your own kitchen.

Clean Paleo Comfort Food Cookbook enables you to have all the dishes you love without the ingredients that sabotage your weight and health. Written by Jessica DeMay, creator of the beloved blog Real Food with Jessica, these recipes will nourish and delight you. Many recipes are also Low-FODMAP and keto compliant! Everyone loves comfort food, but comfort food is often thought of as a cheat meal high in calories and low in nutrition. What if you could have the hearty and tasty dishes you love without the dairy, gluten, grains, and sugar? What if vegetables and seasonings could be used in creative ways to create the comfort food creaminess, heartiness, and flavor that you love? No diet, no matter how healthy, is sustainable if the only thing you can eat is plain protein with a side of green vegetables. With this cookbook, you can stick to your clean paleo diet and enjoy craveable recipes like: Sheet Pan Pancakes Scotch Eggs Instant Pot Applesauce Broccoli and Ham Crustless Quiche Baked Mac and Cheese Bourbon Chicken Chicken Bacon Ranch Meatloaf Chili Dog Casserole Bolognese Taco Casserole French Onion Soup with Meatballs Clam Chowder Butternut Squash Pecan Crumble Cashew Butter Swirl Brownies Banoffee Pie

Enjoy the Southern foods you love with a diabetic cookbook that loves you back. Head down South with a diabetic cookbook that helps you transform classic Southern comfort foods using diabetes-conscious ingredients. Discover over 100 variations on favorite dishes like fried chicken, mac and cheese, and Hoppin' John, and learn how to make them with flavorful substitutions like alternative grains and flours, garlic, onion, and chives, instead of so much starch and salt. With this diabetic cookbook, you'll prepare hearty, comforting meals that balance the trademark bright acidity and satisfying heat of Southern cooking—but are designed with ADA guidelines in mind. Every recipe includes the nutrition information you need at a glance, and you'll even find lists of key pantry staples to keep on hand. Discover a Southern-style diabetic cookbook with: Nothing to lose—Healthy ways to braise, barbeque, smother, and air fry all your favorites. Condiment creations—Make your own brines, rubs, sauces, and seasonings. What's in a serving size?—Tips for knowing what a serving size looks like for different food groups, and the nutritional value they contain. You can have it both ways, thanks to a diabetic cookbook that lets you keep your health and keep the flavor.

With contributions by Barbara Banks, Sheila Bock, Susan Eleuterio, Jillian Gould, Phillis Humphries, Michael Owen Jones, Alicia Kristen, William G. Lockwood, Yvonne R. Lockwood, Lucy M. Long, LuAnne Roth, Rachelle H. Saltzman, Charlene Smith, Annie Tucker, and Diane Tye Comfort Food explores this concept with examples taken from Atlantic Canadians, Indonesians, the English in Britain, and various ethnic, regional, and religious populations as well as rural and urban residents in the United States. This volume includes studies of particular edibles and the ways in which they comfort or in some instances cause discomfort. The contributors focus on items ranging from bologna to chocolate, including sweet and savory puddings, fried bread with an egg in the center, dairy products, fried rice, cafeteria fare, sugary fried dough, soul food, and others. Several essays consider comfort food in the context of cookbooks, films, blogs, literature, marketing, and tourism. Of course what heartens one person might put off another, so the collection also includes takes on victuals that prove problematic. All this fare is then related to identity, family, community, nationality, ethnicity, class, sense of place, tradition, stress, health, discomfort, guilt, betrayal, and loss, contributing to and deepening our understanding of comfort food. This book offers a foundation for further appreciation of comfort food. As a subject of study, the comfort food is relevant to a number of disciplines, most obviously food studies, folkloristics, and anthropology, but also American studies, cultural studies, global and international studies, tourism, marketing, and public health.

Go dairy-free, comfortably—cut out dairy while still enjoying your favorite foods Comfort foods have a sentimental and emotional value that's hard to quantify. But for those of us with dairy restrictions, some favorite comfort foods can cause a whole host of health problems. The Dairy-Free Comfort Food Cookbook is your go-to guide for bringing those favorites back into your life if you're dealing with dairy-related food allergies or lactose intolerance in your family. This dairy free cookbook allows you to discover and enjoy dairy-free twists on classic dishes like pancakes and mac 'n' "cheese," learn about staples to keep in the pantry, and find out what helpful kitchen equipment simplifies cooking. Whether you're considering making the switch to dairy-free out of necessity, because you want to try something new, or are cooking for a loved one, this outstanding dairy free cookbook will help you get started. This standout dairy free cookbook includes: Options galore—The recipes in this dairy free cookbook provide substitutions for ingredients with dairy, like margarine, tofu, non-dairy milk, and others. Top 10—Enjoy recipes for the 10 most popular comfort foods in the country. Options for all—There are extensive, easy-to-use resources and suggestions to accommodate other food allergies and dietary restrictions in this informative dairy free cookbook. It's possible to eat comfort food favorites without the dairy, and this dairy free cookbook shows you how.

At last, vegan food that packs a heaping helping of comfort without the extra calories! Alicia C. Simpson, the master of vegan comfort food, is back again with food that’s crave-worthy and conscience-friendly: 150 satisfying, flavorful, all-new recipes to enjoy from breakfast to dinner and anytime in between. However you define “comfort food,” Alicia’s got you covered with down-home Southern standards, Tex-Mex fiesta favorites, backyard BBQ fare, ole-fashioned one-dish meals, riffs on classic takeout—and a few surprises destined to become new standbys: Baked Hush Puppies • Hoppin’ John • Sweet Potato Salad • Meatball Soup • Carolina BBQ Sammich • Chik’n Pot Pie • Kung Pao Tofu • Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce • Butter Rum Pound Cake • Ooey Gooeys • Mexican Hot Cocoa • and more! Every recipe includes detailed nutritional data on calories, carbohydrates, fat, fiber, and more. Plus, suggested daily menus, ranging from 1,400 to 2,000 calories, make it easier than ever to start cooking food that’s good—in every sense of the word!

Natasha Newton, bestselling author of Southern Keto, once again lends her distinctive Southern flair to the ketogenic lifestyle in her new cookbook, Southern Keto: Beyond the Basics. Natasha brings to your dinner table the sought-after Southern-style recipes she is known for while offering an array of time-honored All-American flavors—all low-carb and keto-friendly. With more than 110 easy-to-follow recipes, Southern Keto: Beyond the Basics features family-friendly cuisine that will please every palate. It includes everything from Southern comfort foods and Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos to Zucchini Parmesan and, of course, a wide range of delicious desserts. With this amazing array of flavor combinations, your low-carb diet will never taste better. Southern Keto: Beyond the Basics also features meal plans, shopping lists, on-the-go lunchbox ideas, cooking tips, and much more. Sample Recipes Include: Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread Deviled Ham Unstuffed Pepper Soup Country Fried Steak and Gravy Nashville Hot Chicken Tenders No-Bake Strawberry Cream Pie

Discover new whole food recipes and plant-based recreations of traditional family dishes—with no oil, often no gluten, and lots of rich, satisfying flavor Good health begins in the kitchen, and great recipes make switching to—or maintaining—a plant-based diet easy. In PlantPure Comfort Food, Kim Campbell—Director of Culinary Education and Development at PlantPure and daughter-in-law of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, the “science father” of the modern plant-based nutrition movement—offers comfort food recipes to satisfy a wide range of palates, making a healthy, plant-based lifestyle more accessible than ever. From enchiladas to pho bowls to buffalo pot pie, the possibilities for plant-based eating are endless—and delicious! This third PlantPure cookbook offers over 100 reinventions of comforting culinary classics, including: Southern Style Polenta and Greens Lasagna Stew Spinach Quesadillas Chickpea Tikka Masala Samosa Burritos Pad Thai Zoodles Sweet Potato Spice Muffins Apple Cranberry Crisp Plus, Campbell offers helpful suggestions on how to swap out flavors and ingredients to truly make these recipes your own, as well as detailed guidelines for swapping meat, dairy, and egg for whole plant substitutes in your own family’s favorite dishes. Food is a vital part of who we are. It’s what brings us together, connects us to tradition, and feeds us, physically and spiritually. Create for your family a new tradition of delicious, sustaining, health-promoting whole plant foods. Give them the gift of a plant-pure table.

The very notion of comfort food could have begun in the farm kitchen, with its rich aromas of bubbling stew and apple pie, its stock of fresh eggs and butter and bacon, its warming custard on a cold winters night or cool spoonful of home-churned ice cream on a steaming Fourth of July. Culled from the pages of The Farmers Wife, the beloved magazine published and pored over throughout Americas heartland for forty-six years, the recipes in this cookbook allow today's cook to recreate all the comforting tastes of the farm kitchen--and to create new memories of food that means home. With straightforward directions and wholesome ingredients to suit the busiest farm wife--or twenty-first-century cook--these hearty soups, casseroles, roasts, pot pies, desserts, and refreshing beverages conjure all the sweet and savory comforts of country cooking at its best.Here’s a sampling of the recipes you’ll find inside: • Mammy’s Corn Bread • Clam Chowder • Deviled Eggs • Macaroni and Cheese • French Stew • Chili Con Carne • Boston Baked Beans • Pot Pie • Escalloped Tuna and Peas • Southern Fried Chicken • Fried Green Tomatoes • Rhubarb Brown Betty • Flapper’s Pudding • Ginger Ale