PBS 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 reluctance 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, and 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 micro¬scope. 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.

标题是垃圾美食就看了，内容这么沉重是闹哪样？讲黑人的垃圾美食为什么这么垃圾，因为奴隶时代不能吃好的，后来又普遍没文化，看什么好吃就煮一大锅。出门带吃的是因为种族隔离，餐馆普遍不招待他们。头一次看到，健康饮食和民族尊严这么紧密结合在一起，莫名励志。