Soul Food Junkies...
140 Characters At A Time!
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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