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What I wish that people understood about
soul food in America is that it's very

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compassionate. People think
of flavors of the actual food,

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but no one thinks about the hands,
the original hands that prepared it.

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And they had to be food engineers,

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meaning taking this piece
and this piece and this end,

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and this slop and turning
it into beautiful,

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delicious dishes that became their love
language that they brought home and fed

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to their family.

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Black women were bringing home the
bacon literally at my restaurant,

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My 2 Cents every day. I have a
healthy approach to soul food:

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gluten-free vegan options, grass fed meat,

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organic.

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Ingredients are regional,

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so there may be something that we offer
just because we're in this region,

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but there's something that soul food
has that all other soul foods have,

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which is love.

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That's what it means to me.
Knife plus fork equals love.

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Food is love, and it's the only
thing that doesn't divide us.

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That's why it's love. And we're
all connected through food. Hulu,

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