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pbs doc. Soul Food Junkies #782446
06/06/14 06:13 PM
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Saw this when it aired. This version has been on youtube for a while so I doubt that's it's being taken down.

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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.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtNLbbft4vw




link to pbs page about the documentary

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/soul-food-junkies/





the dvd is a great holiday gift

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When I was a small boy, we lived with my grandmother for 1 or 2 years in Washington DC. She was a southerner through and through. We are white, but she had what I call soul food all the time and I came to hate it. Black eyed peas, collards, mustard greens ham hocks and Brussels sprouts. Man a night I was made to sit there for hours until all was gone. Maybe that's why I hate a lot of green vegetables now.

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rest in peace to my man R. who passed from diabetes and heart problems, gone way too soon.

take care of your health ,fellas.

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Originally Posted By: getthesenets

take care of your health ,fellas.


Rest In Peace to Anthony Mason


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it's back up

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rest in eternal peace to Phife from a Tribe Called Quest


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RIP to Phife.

I watch that PBS special earlier this year on TV, it was in the middle but I still enjoyed it. As a Southerner Black, I do love Soul Food just can't stand the peas. Eating healthy is a must along with workouts.


If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven't spend the night with a mosquito.
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BF,

it's worth purchasing. I give away a few copies as gifts each year.

They doc. had a segment about Mississippi, what did you think of that part?


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from the filmmaker's blog
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Byron Hurt Documentary Filmmaker updated Status

I have type 1 diabetes. Doctors diagnosed me with the disease in the first week of January 2012. It's one reason why Phife's death hit me so hard. His indelible mark on hip-hop, and on my life, the other. Type 1 diabetes is very difficult to live with but it is manageable when you eat right, exercise regularly, and keep your blood sugar levels within normal range. My doctors were shocked to discover I had type 1 diabetes. I didn't fit the "profile," and type 1, formerly known as juvenile diabetes, typically occurs in children. Adults my age rarely get type 1. More than one doctor said that my getting Type 1 diabetes was like walking down the street and being struck by lightning. Regardless, I have it, and I live with it daily. Ironically, it was an interview that I conducted with a subject for Soul Food Junkies that helped me to recognize my symptoms. They were: blurred vision, dry mouth, an unquenchable thirst, constant fatigue, loss of weight, and frequent urination. If you have any of those symptoms, please go to the doctor and get checked out. Who knows when or why I will die. But in 2012, I promised myself, the moment reality sunk in, that I'd do everything in my power to live as long and as a healthy a lifestyle as humanly possible. As of right now, my blood sugar levels are well-managed, and I lead a very healthy, active lifestyle. I intend to continue living that way. #RIPPhifeDawg

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Freedom Corner: Martin Lurther King Jr Dr & Medgar Evers Blvd, I'm not sure if that's Westside, Northside, or the dividing line of both. I've been reading more about Jackson and haven't explored the whole city yet but drive through it.

Yes , my brother. Come here and you will get feed and leave with a plate with aluminum foil covering it and another with desserts. That's the hospitality of Mississippians and we do get a lot of negative press. More so than positive but it was fairly accurate depiction. I haven't tailgate before.


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Thanks BF,

If they dubbed that segment into different languages, it EASILY could have been about any Caribbean or West African country.Immigrants from those places develop the same health problems at the same rates. Literally every year there's a new person in my extended family who is diagnosed with food related illness.

You can't get more Southern than tailgating because football is king in the South, but I think it was a poor choice to include that part. NOBODY eats healthy food when they are tailgating.......NOBODY...Black White North South MidWest West NFL or at college games.

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REST IN PEACE to Tommy Ford


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CANNOT MAKE THIS UP


Some DC area pastors are suing Coca Cola for misleading Blacks about the "health benefits" of soda.

Not a misprint.




This is along the lines of why a lot of people don't take the clergy seriously. This is a clear shakedown.

What the pastors COULD have done was sponsor a few screenings of the Soul Food Junkies documentary and brought in some physicians to do health education seminars across DC.


Blaming soda company is easier though, confused




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