03/04/2012 - 15:37
Our Healthy Soul Choice is to look for fresh, light carbohydrates such as New Orleans Bill's Creole Potato Salad, which can be found at Smart and Final and Albertson's. Bill Washington has commercialized his mother's recipe for more than 20 years, gaining coveted supermarket distribution when few African-American food manufacturers were able to gain access.
03/03/2012 - 16:42
Today's Healthy Soul Choice is to get busy. Exercise is essential to a healthy diet. The First Lady is encouraging all to Let's Move, particularly sedentary kids. The Howard University Alumni Club of Greater Los Angeles is embarking on the LA Bison Run 2012 on March 17 at Dodger Stadium. They've raised $30,000 over the past two years.
03/02/2012 - 18:42
Today's Healthy Soul Choice is the nutritive value of ginger beer, like that produced by San Francisco bottler Prince Neville. Ginger is an excellent carminative, which relieves intestinal gas, and it relaxes the digestive system. This Caribbean beverage can be found in many Caribbean restaurants.
03/01/2012 - 16:19
One of the most enduring retentions of African-American culture are the traditions associated with food. Some crops actually traveled to the Americas from Africa and other farming techniques made this continent more fertile. Much of what we now consider American cooking is the accumulated menu treasures of black chefs, usually unheralded.
02/20/2012 - 05:42
NEW ORLEANS -- As Fat Tuesday brings throngs into the streets, new data indicates that the food industry is the largest employment source for African-Americans in the Crescent City.
02/11/2012 - 19:44
NEW YORK CITY -- Sylvia's Restaurant, founded by "the queen of soul food", offers special two-course and three course menus for Valentine's Day around the theme "Sylvia's Main Ingredient over the Past 50 Years is Love."
02/11/2012 - 19:28
OAKLAND -- Tanya Holland's new restaurant, B-Side BBQ, and Brown Sugar Kitchen are featured both in MSN's Re-Discover Oakland site and in the June Oprah magazine.
02/10/2012 - 05:00
SAN FRANCISCO -- She said it in a Catholic church, so she must mean it. Sheilah Harris, owner of Bumzy's Cookies at 1460 Fillmore, introduced her new cake vendor, Willie's Good Cakes of Wilton during a Black History Month reception at St. Dominic's Catholic Church.
