We all eat, but some foods do more than stave off hunger. Charla L. Draper, founder of National Soul Food Month, examines ...

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“Soul food gets a bad rap. It is really the standard American diet that is the problem,” said Detroit's Dr. Akua Woolbright, National Nutrition Program Director at Whole Cities Foundation.

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She believes food connects us all, and she strives to communicate this through her work, her cooking, and in her daily interactions with others. Expertise: cooking, soul food, food TV, cookbooks.

On smaller plantations, enslaved people were eating out of the same pot as the slaveholder and their family, according to Miller. On large plantations, there were different cooking teams.