Daily Delicacies March 24

Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 22:12

Healthy Soul Choice. How one cooks can be as important as the actual item, when determining nutritional value. Baking or roasting, with different spices and herbs, is advocated in many of the more recent soul food cookbooks as a way to minimize fat and unhealthy cholesterol. During periods of heavy consumption like the NCAA basketball tournament, cooks can use alternatives to add flavor without frying.

Daily Delicacies. If one decides to pick up dinner for the game, Albert Evans' Wings on the Run, 3010 E. North St. in Greenville, SC has 20 different flavors of chicken wings.

Wing Busters USA has two locations, in Newnan, GA and Grandview, MO, and will prepare as many as 1,000 wings for special events.

Pappa's Soul Food, 8386 Airline Highway in Baton Rouge, LA, offers baked turkey wings as a daily menu item.

Cast Iron Rose Creole Soul Food Family Restaurant, 5340 St. Claude Ave., serves smothered turkey wings on Wednesdays in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.

In Wilmington, DE, the Knotty Pine Soul Food Restaurant, 308 E. 11th St. has been honored as a state historic landmark for its legacy of cooking under founder Stella Dunning.

Favorite Farmer: Black Urban Growers (BUGS) of New York City

Cookbook of the Day: Skinny Cooks Can't Be Trusted by Mo'Nique