Q&A: I was wondering is there much of a difference between Caribbean food and soul food .?

Question by fruitydevil: I was wondering is there much of a difference between Caribbean food and soul food .?
I hear on tv people in america taliking about all theses different soul food dishes and im black and never heard of them or seen them.

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Answer by chris w
Caribbean food really has no definition but soul food has a definition because of hard times during slavery and making do with very little food and making it tasty.

As slaves, African Americans would “make do” with the ingredients at hand. The fresh vegetables found in Africa were replaced by the throwaway foods from the plantation house. Their vegetables were the tops of turnips and beets and dandelions. Soon they were cooking with new types of greens: collards, kale, cress, mustard, and pokeweed. African American slaves also developed recipes which used discarded meat from the plantation, such as pig’s feet, beef tongue or tail, ham hocks, chitterlings (pig small intestines), pig ears, hog jowls, tripe and skin. Cooks added onions, garlic, thyme, and bay leaf to enhance the flavors. Many African Americans depended on catching their own meat, and wild game such as raccoon, possum, turtle, and rabbit was, until the 1950s, very popular fare on the African American table

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