its just Ethiopian food (which is good), Caribbean food is the best in the world, and black southern food is pure happiness. we need to send an envoy the the chinese people lol. its still nice they like the Ethiopian food they say its fun and chaotic like the weekend. ill take it!
I’ve never had black people food. I live in an area that would make Floridian suburbs look like a cultural melting pot. What is it like?
im my biased opinion, black food is the most rich and diverse cuisine in the world. i could write many books about it and never fully encapsulate the love, history, and flavor that goes into our food. i tried a couple times in tis post but it got out of hand. high on the hog is a great docuseries that explores black American and African food that I like. But food is one of those things you MUST try firsthand even if you are just making it at home, but you should really try to go to some black owned restaurants for the real deal if you ever travel. EDIT: and for all the vegans you have no excuse. back people are the fastest growing vegan demographic (a point of pride), and theres black vegan restaurant in most mid size cities ive been to in the south and its always the BEST vegan food in the area. check out Ethiopian and Jamaican places they often have vegan options.
Could you post your favorite dishes? Doesn’t matter if vegan or not, I’ll veganize them myself as much as I can. It’s a cuisine I’m really interested in, I have enough african shops where I live that even oddities of ingredients should be procureable but I just have 0 idea where to start at and every time I google it it’s all entirely south african food
copying another comment asking about Caribbean dishes
as for black southern food try collard greens, mac and cheese, candied yams, fried mushrooms, okra, grits (not sure how that would be vegan, use LOTS of vegan butter) cornbread, black eyed peas, and sweet potato pie. im blessed to be surrounded by black vegan restaurants if you are too you MUST go. i command you.
also i cant recommend any african foods because i dont cook any (yet) i just go to this vegan Ethiopian place and order a little of everything and make my partner eat anything I dont like lol.
curry is the best place to start and the pre mixed spice powders are good just look for “Jamaican curry”. add onions bell peppers and a protein and dumplings and potatoes, lemon juice, garlic powder and you have my favorite food.
thanks for the rec!
hope you like it! its my favorite food doc.
Due to the historical trading and migrational nature of black history, Black food heavily varies. Some cultures like in some parts of east Africa have trade routes and cuisines that share some simularities to Indian cuisine. Blacks who migrated to the Americas have cuisine based on the region they lived in, be it the American south, the various islands in the Carribean or elsewhere.
Black food heavily takes influence to whomever they had trade with, or in context of the America, which colonial power. Its why Cajun and Haitian Cuisine has a French influence, American south with well, American influence, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic with Spanish influence, and any coastal African port countries following the Portuguese trade route have Portugese and Indian (as India was the intended destination spot) influence, mixed with whatever local population there is on said area.
Its hard to describe black food in a general sense because that answer is, it depends. Its like trying to generalize Chinese food when different regions in china have their own style, where sichuan food is spicy, Xian food tends to be more warming(due to colder climate), what most people think of when they say Chinese food is Guangdong/Cantonese food.
The elephant in the room is that the cultural cuisine of black people in the United States is heavily influenced by being enslaved for generations.
https://www.blackfoodie.co/the-humble-history-of-soul-food/