Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Indie Doc "Soul Food Junkies" Twitter Chat Tonight 9 PM/EST

 
Soul Food Junkies...
140 Characters At A Time!
www.twitter.com/byronhurt
 
Byron Hurt To Host a Soul Food
Twitter Chat TONIGHT!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
9:00 - 10:00 pm EST
 
   Login to your Twitter account tonight and get interactive 
with award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt (@ByronHurt) as
he tweets about the making of his new documentary
film Soul Food Junkies, the food justice movement, and
what he discovered about this beloved African American
cuisine. Questions and comments about the film, living and eating healthy, and other topics are all welcome TONIGHT at 9pm EST.
 
(or search the #SoulFoodJunkies hashtag)
 
 
A little bit about the film...
"Is African American culture a culture of soul food junkies?"
 
Food traditions are hard to change, especially when they're passed on from generation to generation. In this PBS documentary, award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt shares his journey to learn more about the African American cuisine known as soul food.

Baffled by his dad's unwillingness to change his traditional soul food diet in the face of a health crisis, Hurt sets out to learn more about this rich culinary tradition and its relevance to Black cultural identity. He discovers that the love affair that his dad and his community have with soul food is deep-rooted, complex, and in some tragic cases, deadly.
 
Through candid interviews with soul food cooks, historians, scholars, as well as doctors, family members, and everyday people, Soul Food Junkies blends history, humor, and heartwarming stories to place this culinary tradition under the microscope. Both the consequences and the benefits of soul food are carefully addressed. So too is the issue of low access to quality food in Black communities, which makes it difficult for some Black people to eat healthy. In the end, Hurt determines whether or not Black people are addicted to this food tradition that has its origins in West Africa and the Black south, yet is loved all over the world.

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