Stevie Wonder’s favorite chef has a new ‘Soul Food’ show on Hulu
nypost.comdefinition of soul food is love,” Reynolds told The Post. “Togetherness, and love language when your back is against the wall.”The show defines “soul food” as “Making something out of nothing, with sustenance and love in every bite.” Reynolds wanted to do a show focusing on soul food, she said, because “I wanted to know what soul food meant.
What it meant in America, and wanting to see if there were similarities around the world, in what other countries considered their soul food.” She kicks off the series by tracing the roots of soul food to the legacy of African American cooking, starting in Mississippi, before she makes a surprising connection to Native Americans in Oklahoma. “There are things that I learned,” Reynolds said, “and things that I think some experts didn’t know, or the average black American, or the average American, for that matter.
I want this show to be for everybody. Say hush puppies, for example. We thought we [black Americans] invented those. Those came from Native Americans. “That’s the beauty in ‘Searching For Soul Food.’ I want to be truthful and transparent in what I know, and what I don’t know.
That’s the magic in the show, all of the discoveries.” Reynolds said that she frequently got emotional while shooting the8-part series. “We’re connecting people through food.
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