Soul food is only one aspect of African American cooking

Soul food is only one aspect of African American cooking. African Americans have heavily influenced four cuisines in the U.S., namely Chesapeake Bay cuisine, Lowcountry cuisine (cooking along the eastern U.S. coastline from southern Virginia to northern Florida), Creole cuisine (the urban cuisine of New Orleans) and soul food (the cuisine of the rural, interior South of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and East Texas). Soul food has become shorthand for all African American cooking, and that’s a mistake.