I'm a white man from South Carolina . We don't call it soul food , as whites and blacks basically have the same types of traditional foods . During my time in the navy I travellled around , and when I saw a place offering soul food I knew they had roots from southern black people and their food would be delicious .

I'm from Baton Rouge, LA I love my mom gumbo she used put chicken, shrimp, okra and crab legs over white rice yum. I miss the way she cook it so much because my mom passes away in 2013.

@KimberlyMichelle3

7 ай бұрын

My heart goes out to you on the loss of your Mom. She sounds like a fantastic cook. 💜Have you tried making her gumbo?

@weblyspade3772

6 ай бұрын

God bless man. From Lafayette

When a country has 340 million people, and there are at least a million people who have come from, or whose roots are from, country A, country B, country C, etc., you know the variety of cuisine is going to be unmatched.

@lartisteautravail

8 ай бұрын

I love being a melting pot! Wish we had more of a history of embracing being one because it’s certainly one of our best qualities.

@bobbimccain2385

8 ай бұрын

I gotta good feel that we are going to reunite soon, and be the Nation that we once were, before being pulled apart by Politics, the illuminati , Freemasons & One World Government.

@77marioland

6 ай бұрын

I'm from Chicago, an interesting fact is Chicago has the second highest population of polocks, second only to Warsaw; Lots of different cuisines only increase your food appreciation. I've made gumbo for a family get together, knocked everyone out; I was surprised myself. Anyone can make good food, just keep it low and slow unless you need to put a sear on a piece of meat. Do your prep work so there's no need to rush, slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

@lateiro6845

3 ай бұрын

Yes but in this case, with Southern soul food, our roots as Black Americans and the way we prepare our dishes come from this country. ❤️

I am from New Orleans. Gumbo has "been around" for a LOT longer than 75 years. She must mean the specific recipe they use was developed about 75 years ago. Gumbo is usually either seafood-based OR chicken + sausage-based. It is unusual to combine the two types of meats but there is no reason one can't combine them. The word Gumbo is African and means "whatever", as in the Gumbo is based on whatever is available. Jambalaya is very similar to Paella and, like gumbo, it is usually either seafood or chicken + sausage based. Louisiana Hot Sauce is a brand and is similar to Tabasco sauce but not as hot as Tabasco.

@kikibigbangfan3540

8 ай бұрын

She did mean that particular recipe has been in her family for 75 years. And secondly, it's not unusual for certain families to mix all the proteins in Gumbo. Thirdly, Gumbo does NOT mean " whatever". Gumbo is African to American translation for the word "Okra." Gumbo is an okra stew/soup.

@monabonejakon2797

8 ай бұрын

The word “gumbo” comes from the West African word “ki ngombo” for “okra”.

@paulabrister3586

8 ай бұрын

I’ve always had gumbo with sausage, chicken, shrimp and crab meat. It’s not an unusual combination.

@barryfletcher7136

8 ай бұрын

@@paulabrister3586 OK

@ONEWAY971

8 ай бұрын

Gumbo does not mean whatever it means Okro

Gumbo is a dish of mixed origins that emerged in Louisiana in the early 18th century1234. It has been influenced by the culinary traditions of African, Native American, French, Spanish, German, and Caribbean cultures. The word "gumbo" may come from the African word "gombo" for okra, which was one of the first ingredients used in the dish. Gumbo is made with various seafood, meats, and vegetables depending on the season and availability. So her family's recipe that the guys ate was about 75 years old. What makes good fried chicken> seasoned flour - so add to the flour you use to coat the chicken b4 frying, everyone has their own ;mix' but gram just did salt & pepper, mainly, occasionally some paprika &/or garlic powder I like salt, pepper v& curry powder, myself ;) - mixed in well before dipping. chicken into flour, beaten egg, back to the flour - into the skillet My fave soul food ... that's difficult. in top 5. Collard Greens, fried chicken, fried okra, fried catfish, chicken and dumplings.

I've never been to Britain, but what gets me is that they traveled the world building an empire looking for spices, found them, then decided not to use them in their food. LOL Dark meat on chicken always has the most flavor. Here in Wisconsin, USA, Friday fish fry is almost like a religion. Most every bar, tavern and restaurant has deep fried fish of many types, and instead of using water for the batter we use beer (and spices).

I am from the south east and I have relatives in Louisiana that live near New Orleans near Fat City in Jefferson Parrish ..I went to New Orleans a few years back during last week of December for the New Years Celebration ..It was crazy and the food is great, the best time to go is during a huge celebration ,but I ever have been to The Martigras .. English Food ,I have had Shepard's Pie at an English Cuisine Restaurant in the US and I ate a dessert ,some kind a apple dish and it all was very good ..I enjoyed it very much...

I live in Colorado but I’m very lucky that a family from New Orleans opened up a restaurant not too far from where I live. Of course nothing will beat going there to try it, but it’s amazing food.

I'm from Texas but when I was in highschool I helped with rebuilding a elementary school in New Orleans after Katrina, my group stayed at a former homeless shelter and the cook was an old lady who spoke Cajun french. Everyday after work we couldn't wait for dinner because it was so good. Gumbo is still my favorite soup.

Gumbo has been around for HUNDREDS of years.

It’s what I love so much about America. We take pride in our food and our regional contributions. We have such greatness in so many different forms. ❤❤❤

Im from Alabama USA. Food is AWESOME 😊❤

@terrencebrooks1839

8 ай бұрын

I'm from Alabama also.....We definitely have great food!!!

I love jambalaya. I cook it at home quite often. I have a special designated pan just for cooking jambalaya in. That or Arroz Con Pollo are the only things I cook in it. No to the hot sauce unless you're my Dad or my nephew. I actually like a good Full English breakfast (minus the black pudding), bangers & mash or a Scotch egg.

You will also enjoy their second video from New Orleans featuring a Crawfish Boil.

You definitely need to watch their Crawfish Boil vid. So good!

Key to a good gumbo is the roux. It will make or break your dish.

@myishahogan4655

2 ай бұрын

And sassafras (file powder)! :)

Just about every person that makes Gumbo (restaurants, friends, your mama), makes it differently. The phrase you'll hear is 'you've got to try my Gumbo!".

Mert, I certainly hope you have the chance to experience some of these restaurants first hand one day. I'm from the opposite end of the States (close to the Canadian border), so I had limited opportunities to enjoy soul food before taking a family trip to the South about ten years ago. My wife and I found a humble little restaurant in rural Mississippi where we had one of the best meals of our lives. The staff got a kick of watching our young twin daughters try foods for the first time and enjoy them, even the spicy ones. One of the waitresses brought over some items we hadn't even ordered just to see how our girls would react to them. Not surprisingly, the desserts won the day with one of my daughters preferring the banana pudding and the other the peach cobbler. Even to this day, we talk about that memorable meal and the wonderful Southern hospitality we experienced.

Great reaction. I am from New Orleans Louisiana and the food here is amazing.

Living in Canada, I don't get exposed to a lot of southern soul food other than on KZread and TV... luckily, I love to cook so I like to explore the world through food. I've made jambalaya before and loved it, my next venture is a good gumbo. We can't find andouille sausage here so I'll have to sub, but I'm excited. Can anyone recommend a good staple southern dessert to make?

@kikibigbangfan3540

8 ай бұрын

I don't eat either of these desserts, but banana pudding or peach cobbler. Would match a Soul Food meal perfectly. Yes, I am a Black American who was born and raised in the South. Whole family was born and breed here. I just so happen to not like either of these staples of African American cuisine. I know... I know that gene must have just skipped me. 😂 A great substitution for andouille sausage is a great Cajun smoked sausage of any kind...maybe the "hot" version if you like things spicy. Hope that helps and good luck and happy eating. 😊

I’m from Shreveport which is a few hours away from New Orleans. These are staple dishes enjoyed throughout Louisiana. My family makes seafood gumbo on various holidays.😊

Wings were always the piece of choice for all our family functions/dinners! We order entire trays haha. There’s something so moreish about them

Jumbo is awesome! So very flavorful!

I went to a music workshop in Salisbury, England and we were staying in the cathedral college. Before I went I was thinking -- college food (bland, overcooked), English food (bland, overcooked), so English college food !?! But it turned out great. They had a chef from the local culinary school. The food was seasoned well and perfectly cooked, with a lot of local produce and meat. And after the meal we'd get a cheese board of English cheeses and a big bowl of local strawberries with clotted cream. And of course a perfectly cooked English breakfast in the morning.

Louisiana is the best place to get Gumbo, other people make it but they make the best. Different regions will often make subtle changes to the recipe. It should always have shrimp, chicken, and sausage in it, and Louisiana will generally always have clergy, onions, and peppers in their foods. My family is from North Carolina, and Soul food also varies from Region to Region. Generally a lot of black families past down recipes. You must season the food! You season before during and after lol.

Biscutis and gravy is so easy to make. American biscuits are little quick breads with minimal ingredients. Cream gravy is just roux + sausage + milk. So easy yet so delectable.

Gumbo and Jambalaya are French Cajun and indigenous to Louisiana. Both are great with chicken, sausage and shrimp.

I can’t remember who said it, and maybe it’s a common joke, that Britain conquered the world to get spices to trade, but it never occurred to them to use the spices in food. Even Brits don’t seem to have much enthusiasm for their food. I have been to Louisiana, but I was born and raised in landlocked Pennsylvania, where seafood was not a ‘thing.’ I had, among other foods, crayfish lasagna, as though an Italian collided with a Cajun. I was highly skeptical, having no love for seafood, but it was wonderful.

Best gumbo I've ever eaten is my mom's! Jambalaya, etouffe, all of it. Grew up in Texas, but my mom was from Louisiana.

Surprised they didn't serve the gumbo with rice. Gumbo is not "soul food", it's Creole. I notice they mentioned haggis when they saw the boudin. My family went to the UK, found Haggis to be an acquired taste which ... they DID acquire. Boudin is simply pork and seasoned rice in a sausage skin. Gumbo is a western African word which refers to cooked okra. Gumbo traditionally uses chopped okra as a thickening agent. Otherwise, file (fee-lay) is used to thicken it. It simply powdered bay leaves. Cajun Jambalaya is typically chicken or turkey in seasoned rice. Creole Jambalaya will often have seafood and some tomato paste in to flavor it.

Love your enthusiasm to try "Soul Food." If you really want to take a deep dive into the history of Soul Food, I recommend the awesome Netflix documentary "High on the Hog." Soul Food is the name we give to the cuisine of African-American people from the Southern U.S. which was developed through the centuries by African slaves and other colonial influences. African slaves brought their cooking style as well as spices and seasonings and different foods not native to the U.S. (i.e. okra) and cooked it all together (from their soul) for their White plantation owners. I mean the main duties of kitchen slaves was to do the cooking and this way of cooking of course was adopted by the White people who owned slaves and who lived in close proximity to Black slaves in the South. That's why today it is common for White people and Black people in the Southern U.S. to cook and eat the same Soul Food cuisine. For example White Americans who grew up on the East or West coast of the U.S. probably did not grow up eating grits, whereas White Southerners, Black Southerners and many Black people in the U.S. generally all grew up eating grits. I have noticed many British people doing YT videos expressing their love and interest in Soul Food, but as an African-American I feel too often the history of where Soul Food truly comes from is erased and not acknowledged.

@andromedaspark2241

8 ай бұрын

African American cuisine so deeply effected southern culture. My Granny was mostly white from the mountains, and soul food was just food to us. I can't imagine what our food would be without the contribution of Black Americans. I hate how we got it though.

@kaybouie1972

8 ай бұрын

yes that Documentary is good.

I’m not from Louisiana, but that’s where fast food Popeye’s fried chicken originated from. It’s the spices…head and tails above KFC…and they finally opened a location a mile from my house in South Florida.

Gumbo be around so much longer then 75 years

Okra really makes the gumbo flavor with much more ingredients, okra is first thing.

The good thing about USA is we have everything, if you don't like one area we have tons of places to try

You don't get good gumbo from like Montana. You need to be in the deep South and more specifically in Louisiana if you want the good stuff. It's just so good. It's taken me like 2 years to get a recipe down that I'm now proud to serve. There are so many varieties and ways you can make gumbo, but generally speaking it starts with making a roux of oil or butter and flour which you constantly stir on heat until you reach the color of a copper penny, or darker, then you add the Holy Trinity of celery, onion, and green pepper, then you start really adding in the flavor with a nice homemade chicken/turkey broth, cajun seasonings, you add things like cooked Andoullie sausage, chicken, shrimp, crab or crab legs, with some people adding in okra. Best to make a big old pot of the stuff for now and for later, because it freezes really well.

You can make your own buttermilk biscuits and sausage gravy. The sausage gravy is truly something else. It is a mind blowing thing since it's not in Asian cuisine at all.

Soak the chicken in egg for 5 hours covered in the frig. Take 2 cups flour, celery salt, garlic salt black pepper white pepper, parcley flakes. Stir it up. Roll the chicken in the batter. Fry the. CHicken in lard on high heat. Till golden brown on both sides. Put chicken on a paper towel. Drain. Plate the chicken and squeeze a lemon over it just before u serve it. If you dont like lemon leave it out. Enjoy...cant u guys cook over there

With fried chicken my favorite is the leg followed by the thigh & then the breast

I’ve been to the UK 3 times and the food is fine, especially in London. All the traditional food is really well-done and the meat pies in Scotland were legendary. That being said, I think the average British palate is ridiculously picky and unadventurous and I’m basing this off my many British friends who have the tastebuds of a toddler. When we traveled across Europe, they were always reluctant to try anything local which forced me to have to eat a lot of McDonalds and kfc.

If YOU were seen walking around in New Orleans....i'd say "wow, the Irish Channel has the most handsome men in N.O."

My friend chicken piece preference depends on the meal. With waffles? Breast! With fried rice, or white rice with collard greens and hot sauce? Wings! With potato salad (Southern potato salad!!)? Thighs &/or legs... Hehe

I'm from NOLA, our fried chicken is amazing, even gas station fried chicken is better than most of the fried chicken in the rest of the country. Willie Mae's Scotchouse has been called the best fried chicken in the country. Gumbo is best when the weather is cold, it'll warm you up. Jambalaya is amazing. Too bad they didn't get to try some crawfish etouffee. While I'm sure that Lil Dizzy's boudin is great, if you go to Acadiana, there is some truly great boudin there.

Gumbo & jambalaya can be found all over the country, but no place can hold a candle to New Orleans.

I was born in Louisiana and been here 52 yeasr. I'd rather jambalya than gumbo, but yes gumbo is good. Most ppl put too much of the wrong spices. Many ppl that dont live here just think its spiced hot food. It's not, we like to have flavor and a lil tingle of spice...

It's all about depth of flavor and mouthfeel. Gumbo is on the Mt. Rushmore of such dishes! At the risk, 'Louisiana' style hot sauce is (imho) weak & watery. Hot sauce can be and is done much, much better. I'm a Frank's man myself. But yeah, go to the South, strap in, prepare to have your taste buds be revolutionized...

The hot sauce was for the collards or the gumbo to make it hotter.

Wings are my favorite, you season the flour, season the chicken

As an American I feel like UK food gets a bad rap- Even traditional UK foods like steak & kidney pie or sausage & mash taste really good when it’s made well Plus you guys have incorporated tasty dishes with foreign origins into UK cuisine now as well, like Afro-Portuguese Peri-Peri, Jamaican, Indian, etc

I would put some okra in there to thicken it up. I think gumbo is more stew than soup. It's a meal all by itself. Right now I'm crying because now I live in Texas and I haven't a decent meal since I moved here in the 70's. Jealous!!!

I am from just south of New Orleans (born on the bayou) and what makes a great gumbo is it starts with the roux (the base) which makes it dark and full bodied. A good roux is a labor of love. Then you go from there. You can make a shrimp and okra gumbo, a seafood gumbo, a chicken and sausage gumbo and the smell of a gumbo cooking is like no other! It is heavenly. I lived overseas and I just dove into the local cuisine where I was and loved it. I would do the same in the UK I am sure.

I really don't want to tell you what I thought of the food offerings while visiting the UK

@kikibigbangfan3540

8 ай бұрын

Don't tell him, tell us what you thought 😂😂😂

@license2kilttheplaidlad640

8 ай бұрын

@@kikibigbangfan3540 i ate a lot of scrambled eggs and sausage because it was about all they couldn't fuck up

Areas if country do have different food cultures, I believe its because of the cultures of the immigrants who settled in the area. The areas then have food cultures that are a conglomeration of the food made by the grandparents. In WI where I gre up it was Geman food.. but in milw there were italian neighborhoods and polish neighborhoods.. but across the state you have very different foods with more scandinavian influences. In the upper part you see other stuff like fish boils.. because of the lakes and fish and potatoes that the folks would eat.

Louisiana is known for gumbo and jambalaya but you’ll probably have a hard time finding them both in other states as often as you would find it in Louisiana. Foods and the way food is prepared is regional generally speaking. By the way, the gumbo should have been either added to rice or had rice added to the gumbo Gumbo is not to be eaten without rice

The first time i had fish and chips was in London and 😅.....it was perfectly crispy, but not very flavorful 😂

@AC-ni4gt

8 ай бұрын

Fish and chips in America is way better.

I live in Louisiana, across the lake from New Orleans, and I wouldn't go to the UK for the food, buf definitely the history, old architecture, the people, and the pubs. Also, you guys do some food and drink items well, but not main dishes. I prefer your biscuits to our cookies/biscuits. I find ours too sweet. I prefer your beer and your chocolate. I like some of your snacks. A lot of Americans would hate Marmite, but I love it. I love bitter, deep flavors like that.

Brits still think that World War ll rations are all the rage.😂

myrtle beach south carolina

Not a big fan of my biological fathers side of the family as now I’m older and see them for who they are but his aunt came up from Louisiana when I was 11 or 12 yo and she made gumbo (and I was a picky eater) and it was amazing with chicken thighs, shrimp, okra, corn potatoes, vegetables, spices, over a small serving of rice.. fuking delicious! 3:54

You don't pour the hot sauce on food. You put a few drops on it. lol

I'm from south Louisiana. The closest I ever came to the UK was my roommate in the Air Force who was born there. Also, my Papaw Bourgeois mom came from Virginia, then Kentucky, but her dad was an Edrington from England! My favorite food is boudin. A sausage made with pork, pork liver, rice and seasonings. If you'd like to try an authentic Cajun gumbo in the UK, buy Uncle Larry's Ready, Set, Gumbo online and just follow the instructions!

if the Brits try are Food they never going back to UK for sure

@erics607

8 ай бұрын

It's a bit comical at this point with Brits and American food. I've seen probably 4 different channels where Brits react to our food and several other things. Almost every time they say that our food doesn't look that appetizing or they don't understand how a certain combination could taste good. Then almost immediately after trying it, they are shocked at how good it tastes.

Okay get a cast iron skillet. Fry some pork sausage. Good pork sausage cook it up. Take the sausage out leave the drippings in the pan on high heat. One cup of flour black pepper, white pepper, spoon of salt, half a stick of real butter, stir.....then stir in a cup of whole milk. Turn down the heat. Stir till creamy. Take pan off the stove readd the sausage .....pour over southern butter milk biscuits..eat

@suziewheeler6530

6 ай бұрын

Oh I forgot some parsley flakes ...enjoy

i,m from Texas and i been in UK the food over there suck big time,sorry dude

My favorite part of the chicken is the breast as well though growing up I was all about the drumsticks. My mom LOVES wings. That's just too much work to get a nice portion, lol. There are few things better than a properly fried/spiced crunchy piece of chicken, some mac and cheese and my momma's collard greens...YUM!

As a southern, any further south and I'd be in the Gulf. I love my gumbo to be thicker and just have seafood, like shrimp or crab gumbo or both YES! Lots of okra and a lil cayenne pepper. MERT, check out Divas can Cook on youtube if you wanna try some recipes, she shows you how step by step. Louisiana is about a two hour trip from my home. I literally have a lil bottle of tobasco sauce on my desk for when I eat and watch youtube.

Louisiana hot sauce is the best.

If you come to Oklahoma..come eat

When I visited Scotland, I enjoyed the fish and chips, Scotch, and a lot of lamb. However, I missed the variety of fresh vegetables....and chicken. Americans eat a LOT of chicken, and in most restaurants in Edinburgh and Inverness, it was mostly fish, beef, and lamb. As I was there for a week, I MISSED chicken, and that was my first meal back in the states

My favorite jambalaya meal was in a colorado sky town... Obviously someone came and started a restaurant that brought the recipes and cooking skills with them.. So while southern area has the soul food all over, there are foods avail all over if tou look for it. I love korean food, but here in Phoenix i have to admit i havent found it.. they do have pretty good Tai food.. but im not willing to drive across town for 1.5 hours. But if you want tacos or burritos theres plenty of options.

@starparodier91

8 ай бұрын

Which restaurant? Was it NoNo’s?

UK food wasn't bad (okay, some was. Chinese restaurants in Scotland are different 😶). I liked pub food. Unpretentious, relying on the flavor of the base ingredients without masking it in spices, really comfort food. Then the chip shops and kebab places late at night. Curries are part of UK culture. The best was seafood and venison in a beautiful restaurant in St Andrews. UK food really can be delightful. I'm from the US, a southerner, just fyi.

In 64 years of living in the South, I've really never heard anyone talk about 'soul food'. And when I see what some people say it is, all I think is... that's just down home country cooking.

@kikibigbangfan3540

8 ай бұрын

Where do you live in the South and never heard anyone speak about "Soul Food"? Just a stab in the dark, but a predominantly um... Caucasian area. And Soul Food is it's own thing, that down home country cooking is based off of.

@Ira88881

8 ай бұрын

@@kikibigbangfan3540 The term became popular when blacks moved north and opened restaurants there. When they lived in the south, it was just called FOOD. I’m in Florida, which granted doesn’t really count as the south (it’s its own animal), and there’s no such thing as a soul food restaurant anywhere near me. It was always merged with BBQ.

@HoneySwtDrms

8 ай бұрын

@@Ira88881 Of course it wouldn't have to be called "Soul Food" if it's the standard food in the area. Because of the Great Migration, Black Americans who left the south went from calling it "Down Home Cooking" to "Soul Food" when BAs started branding ourselves as the "Soul people". Soul Food is Black American cultural cuisine

@kikibigbangfan3540

7 ай бұрын

@@Ira88881 your "facts" about Soul Food are off. But thanks anyway 😬

@Ira88881

7 ай бұрын

@@kikibigbangfan3540 Soul food never became a term until the mid-20th Century. Prior to that, black Southerners just called it FOOD! It wasn’t until blacks moved to the north and introduced it to white customers that they created a new name called soul food. It was NEVER called soul food in the south until modern times, and was first coined by blacks who moved to the north and missed their home cooking. Funny how you think you know about this stuff and you really don’t.

If you ever wonder why so many Americans are fat it’s because we have a lot of food choices and the food is good.

Big mistake dousing Jambalaya with that much hot sauce. Not because its too hot (its not really) but its too vinegary. The vinegar takes over.

I'm from Louisiana and I've never been to the UK but I have been to the Midwest of the US and the food there made me sad.

I've never seen such watery gumbo in my life. Evidently they haven't figured out what a roux is in the past 75 years, and where's the rice? I guess it's a 7th ward thing maybe.

New Orleeeens?! No, no, no! It's N'awlins!

How come Brits always pronounce paella and jalapeños incorrectly? They’re SPANISH words, and shouldn’t be anglicized!

FYI, this is really Cajun food. Not really exclusively soul food. My mother was born and raised in New Orleans and I grew up with different Cajun and Creole food

@sleepingbun5474

8 ай бұрын

it’s creole soul food

@kikibigbangfan3540

8 ай бұрын

No ma'am! This is most definitely Creole food.

I don't wish to offend but I have spent a good amount of time in The U.K. and for the most part found the food to range from terrible to mediocre. The best food was food from other cultures and prepared by them. I found the Indian and Chinese food very good.