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Prepare some tasty soul food using the recipes in Black Pioneer Centennial: A Little Taste of Soul, a cookbook that assembles materials in a limited edition. This excerpt from the cookbook contains not only recipes, but also some interesting facts about the history of the foods, spices, and methods of cooking and serving Black-Canadian Soul Food.
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Soul Food Dinner
The Black Pioneer Descendants' Society (Western Canada) hosts an immensely popular Soul Food Dinner every year. The evening features speeches from keynote guests (in 2007, Dr. Rhonda Hinther, curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, delievered an informative session on Toles School), music and song, and, most importantly, plenty of food. Some of the items you will find on the menu are ribs, fried chicke, collard greens with smoked turkey, coleslaw, cornbread, and sweet potato pie.
Prepare some tasty soul food using the recipes in Black Pioneer Centennial: A Little Taste of Soul, a cookbook that assembles materials in a limited edition. This cookbook, prepared to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Black settlement in Alberta, contains not only recipes, but also some interesting facts about the history of the foods, spices, and methods of cooking and serving Black-Canadian Soul Food. Copies of this cookbook are available for purchase from the Black Pioneer Descendants' Society.