Soul Food Junkies: Docu-film airs tonight.

Man, who doesn't love some soul food! :heart:




Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food -- from its roots in Western Africa, to its incarnation in the American South, to its contribution to modern health crises in communities of color.

Soul Food Junkies also looks at the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from making calories cheap, but healthy options expensive and hard to find....

....Hurt sets out on a historical and culinary journey to learn more about the soul food tradition and its relevance to black cultural identity...through candid interviews with soul food cooks, historians, and scholars, as well as with doctors, family members, and everyday people, the film puts this culinary tradition under the microscope to examine both its positive and negative consequences.



CLICK THE LINK FOR THE TRAILER. It's looks pretty good.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/soul-food-junkies/film.html

*It airs tonight at 10pm on PBS's Independent Lens.*

About the Film maker...


Byron Hurt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, published writer, anti-sexism activist, and lecturer. Hurt is also the host of the Emmy-nominated series, Reel Works with Byron Hurt. The Independent named him one of the "Top 10 Filmmakers to Watch" in 2011. His most popular documentary, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was later broadcast on Independent Lens.

 

Get them green beans off the plate. I'll take the rest.

 

I fucking HATE that phrase! So much irony in it.

 

Got to see it. However,if it makes me hungry I will not watch.

 

LOL! @ (some of) your comments....:smt081

 

I didn't see it because The Abolitionists was on. I even missed the Frederick Douglass episode.