There’s more to soul food than great flavor. There’s an art to soul food that is vastly different from that of many others. Often, television networks, high profile cooks and the like can’t seem to naturally capture it or create it at its best. However, there’s one event that takes soul food to another level. The Soul Food Festival produced by Kinfolks Entertainment is one of the premier events in not only the art of soul food, but the culture as well. In it’s fifth year, the festival is currently in nine cities throughout the U.S. and features all the best in fried fish, sweet potato pie, cornbread, barbecue chicken, pork and beef, collard greens, macaroni and cheese, chocolate cake and so much more. On the main stage the festival will feature George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, The Barkays, Confunkshun, The SOS Band, Slave and the Dazz Band. Pat Williams, the President of Kinfolks Entertainment established a foundation, Kinfolks Foundation, to help provide four-year scholarships and last year helped twenty-two underprivileged youth obtain a GED. Soul Food comes with so many different techniques and recipes and you are sure to find a little bit of everything at this event. This is a BYOLC event, meaning you are welcome to bring your own lawn chair as it is most certainly expected to be a sit back and relax kind of experience. Today, we live in a more health conscious age. Restaurants are no longer allowed to serve food with transfats, Denmark has introduced a “fat food tax” making junk food and other foods that are high in saturated fat, much more expensive and soul food has traditionally gotten a bad rap for many years. Fortunately, those who love soul food can rest assured that there are many benefits to the foods that we categorize as food for the soul with that awesome southern flare. According to the website everythingro.com, collard greens and mustard greens belong to a group of vegetables called cruciferous vegetables. These vegetables contain chemical compounds that help prevent cancer cells from forming and reproducing. The website also helps the soul food lover understand alternate ways to cook greens and other traditional soul food recipes without the fat while salvaging the flavor. Soul Food may also include foods that may not be very healthy like, fried chicken and even fried “chit’lins” or the intestines of hogs. Whatever your flavor or style in southern cuisine, you can find it at the Soul Food Festival next month in Jacksonville. The Soul Food Festival will be held in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday November 12th at Metropolitan Park. In an effort to help support soul food restaurants in Orlando, festival-goers can purchase their tickets for only $15 as opposed to $25 at Oley’s Kitchen and Smokehouse located at 2700 South Rio Grande Avenue or at Chef Eddie’s Restaurant, 3214 Orange Center Boulevard in Orlando. Visit ilovesoulfood.com for more information on the event and where to purchase tickets in your area.
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