soul food

noun

food traditionally eaten by African-Americans in the South

• Hypernyms: ↑food, ↑nutrient

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noun

: food (as chitterlings, hogs' jowls, ham hocks, collard greens, catfish, and cornbread) traditionally eaten especially by southern black Americans

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—soul-food, adj.

traditional black American cookery, which originated in the rural South, consisting of such foods as chitterlings, pig knuckles, turnip greens, and cornbread.

[1960-65, Amer.]

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soul food noun (US informal)

Food such as chitterlings, cornbread, etc, traditionally eaten by African Americans of the Southern states

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Main Entry: ↑soul

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soul food UK US noun [uncountable] mainly american

food that is traditionally eaten by black people in the southern US

Thesaurus: types of food or drink_hypernym pies and pastries_hyponym

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soul food,

type of cooking developed by African Americans, especially those living in the Southern United States—including chitterlings, corn bread, pig's feet, turnip greens, and fried catfish: »

Soul food may be said to embrace all the food created or developed over the centuries by the Negro cooks of the South…It embraces such obvious dishes as fried chicken, spareribs, black-eyed peas, candied yams, mustard, turnip and collard greens cooked for hours with salt pork or fat back (Craig Claiborne).

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n. traditional southern African-American food

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noun [noncount]

: the type of food traditionally eaten by African-Americans in the southern U.S.

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ˈsoul food [soul food] noun uncountable

the type of food that was traditionally eaten by black people in the southern US