The new Hulu show stars chef Alisa Reynolds crossing borders — both geographic and cultural.
"Searching for Soul Food" follows rock star celebrity chef Alisa Reynolds as she discovers what soul food looks like around the world. The international journey finds Chef Reynolds exploring the culinary worlds of Mississippi, Oklahoma, Appalachia, South Africa, Italy, Jamaica, Peru and Los Angeles.
Honestly, it was the reality of potentially losing my restaurant. The show became a part of me thinking that if I could leave that place right now and still be able to inspire people with his, then maybe I could deal with it. I focused less on what I could lose and more on moving forward.I’ve traveled before but never saw anyone that looked like me traveling the world and talking about food this way. I knew I wanted to tell our history, but everything is so gloom and doom.
Soul food comes from the African American tradition, but the show expands its reach by exploring “soul food” from Naples, Italy, to the Choctaw Indians in Oklahoma, to Peru. During your travels, what were the cultural similarities that you found?One of the significant similarities I found was how many of these cultures had a history of creating something from nothing, which we know comes from colonization.
So much in our food is about that resiliency and connection to our ancestors, and what it says about their hearts and the history on that plate. To not just create something in a challenging time, but regardless of being mistreated, they still found time to create joy on a plate, and how what we’re eating now comes from that. We should be thanking the people who came before us. It’s up to us to continue that legacy, not erase it.connected that region with soul food, and yet here we are.
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